UPI reports that flight hours for Remotely Piloted Vehicles are still surging. In fact, nearly half of the five-year total flight hours (250,000 hours) were logged in the past year. The aircraft's ability to loiter has become increasingly valuable in operations in Afghanistan.
(U.S Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nancy Hooks) Members of the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron unit push an MQ-1 Predator toward a hangar for a routine maintenance inspection shortly after landing June 8, 2010, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
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