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Airbus Helicopters continues to eye novel architectures for future rotorcraft designs, including new compound and tail rotor-free configurations, patent applications reveal. A pair of filings – ...

Sikorsky's X2 helicopter programme has a mixed R&D heritage, and could be the model for the next generation of rotorcraft designs Along with broadening the realm of vertical lift, first flight of ...

Aerovelo's Atlas, the human-powered helicopter's quad-rotor design. The Igor Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Award (a $250,000 engineering prize) was unclaimed for 33 years, but the University of ...

Sagita has built an RC model of its concept. A new helicopter concept with less complex mechanics aims to make aviation safer, simpler, and easier to maintain. Sagita Helicopters in Belgium is behind ...

A dual-rotor concept to improve helicopter performance achieved first flight more than a year after originally planned. Will the design live up to its promise? A futuristic helicopter prototype ...

UAVOS announced that it had completed flight tests of its advanced bearing-less rotor system installed on the UVH 25EL unmanned helicopter. Torsion bar is aimed to provide an effective damping action ...

An artist's rendering of Boeing's submission for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition is seen here. (Boeing) WASHINGTON — After dropping a brief teaser trailer several weeks ...

Since helicopters appeared some 80 years ago, they’ve used a single high-speed tail rotor to counteract the torque of the main rotor, stabilizing the aircraft in flight. But that rotor is both the key ...

Nearly a year after NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crash landed on Mars following an extended, remarkably successful mission, engineers have determined the most likely culprit: Flight over sand drifts so ...

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant, one of two aircraft competing for the US Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program, has finally made its first flight—a short bit of hovering around an ...