In this recent news story, two types of aviation are talked about: the Malaysian plane itself, a 9M-MRO, and a new American-made undersea drone. Search vessels have detected "pings" that seem to have been pretty promising, so the search is going underwater. The underwater drone is called the Bluefin-21, of the US Navy. As of today, it has been 38 days since the search started. The "pings" have gone silent because investigators think that the batteries from the plane's flight recorders have finally gone dead. The new technology using drones will hopefully, finally, make a difference in this search.
I think that this is interesting because when most people think about drones, they think about the government using them for the war overseas, using them for defensive purposes to find and kill terrorists and threats to the United States. This is why drones are so controversial. This article, however, proves that drones can be used for so much more. Aviation technology has advanced greatly just in these last few years and this story is proof to how the bounds of aviation are almost endless.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0414/Malaysia-Airlines-Flight-MH370-US-underwater-drone-takes-over-search-video
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