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Why The Inventor Of The Predator Drone's Electric Aircraft Startup Is Stumbling
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4:39Now PlayingThe legendary ‘Dronefather’ Abraham Karem’s company Overair is running short on money and workers are out en masse, Forbes has learned.
In the early 1990s, Abraham Karem developed the Predator drone, a deadly aircraft that transformed modern warfare and birthed a market estimated to be $14 billion this year. For the past 30 years, the “dronefather” has been hard at work with Pentagon funding on his second act: technology to make more efficient, longer-flying helicopters and other rotorcraft.
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