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Investigators have linked the slaying of a North Carolina hiker and disappearance of her husband to a man charged with killing a hiker in Georgia, and are looking into whether he could be tied to the disappearance of another North Carolina hiker, authorities said Wednesday.Gary Michael Hilton has been charged in the beating death and decapitation of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson, whose body police found Jan. 7 in a Georgia state forest with Hilton s help.Transylvania County Sheriff David Mahoney said detectives have now linked Hilton to the slaying of 84-year-old Irene Bryant and disappearance of her 80-year-old husband John Bryant in the North Carolina woods. Mahoney declined to say how investigators linked Hilton to the case.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is asking for help in finding an abandoned white van that belonged to Hilton. GBI spokesman John Bankhead said the white Chevrolet Astro van was discovered by a hunter about a month ago on U.S. Forest Service land in White County in the mountains of northwest Georgia, reports CBS News affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta. Bankhead said someone has towed the vehicle away since then, and authorities want access to it as part of an investigation into the brutal Jan. 4 death of Meredith Emerson. The vehicle is not the sam
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In 2009, the Office of Naval Research super-endurance drone, the Ion Tiger, flew for a record 23 hours, 17 minutes鈥攖he longest ever for a fuel cell-powered UAV. But late last week, the ONR demolished its own record with a 48-plus hour foray into the great blue yonder. The orig
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stanley spain ogy Corporation, the University of Hawaii, and HyperComp Engineering to develop the Ion Tiger fuel cells. The craft itself may soon see service as a long-linger ISR platform while its 2,500 W-hr/kg PEM fuel cell can be scaled up to support larger UAVs and other aircraft. [National Research Lab Aerowiki Sci