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Remote-controlled planes allow flying without fear

Last updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 10:26am

LAYTON -- After riding in helicopters with the Coast Guard, fear became a factor for Ryan Cormier -- he even changed careers after some of his buddies were killed in helicopter crashes.

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Roy bomb plot suspects could learn to fly plane on computer

Thomas Kent The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 10:08am

Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?

Sort of.

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Plane crashes, explodes in Arizona, 6 feared dead

Walter Berry The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 9:26am

PHOENIX -- A small airplane with three men and three young children onboard crashed Wednesday evening into mile-high mountains east of Phoenix while going around 200 mph, the Pinal County sheriff said.

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Randy Van Surdam carries his Dexter, his handicapped companion. Dexter accompanies Van Surdam to work at an airport hangar. (SHNS photo courtesy Anderson Independent Mail)

Dog is chopper co-pilot

Charmaine Smith-Miles Anderson Independent-Mail

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 3:12pm

SENECA, N.C. -- Dexter is a dog, but he knows when it's time to fly.

He's always waiting under the 1964 Bentley helicopter when Randy Van Surdam comes out of the second-story loft apartment built inside this private airplane hangar in Seneca. Dexter's tail wags as Van Surdam scoops him up.

"When I come out in the morning, he'll be sitting under" the chopper, Van Surdam said.

Van Surdam, who owns a vintage aircraft business, is an airplane mechanic at the Oconee County Regional Airport. He inspects airplanes and helicopters. Every day, he starts up the engine of his two-seater Bentley helicopter, places Dexter in the doggie bed on the passenger seat and flies the two miles to work.

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