Hill Helicopters engineered composite main rotor blades using a novel single-cure manufacturing process for stiffness and ...

Six people died when a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon. One aviation expert says that the entire rotor assembly may have come off, causing the crash. The tragedy is the ...

Historical references to spinning flying machines go back hundreds of years, with evidence like the 12th-century Chinese twirling kite and Leonardo da Vinci's bizarre airscrew contraption of 1483.

Emergency responders at the Mercy Flight crash that killed two pilots on April 26 in Elba have known that the Bell 429 helicopter landed in two pieces: the main body and the tail. Now a preliminary ...

Although helicopter aerodynamics involves the same forces that arise in airplane aerodynamics, these forces occur differently due to fluid flow dynamics across the aircraft. Helicopters take advantage ...

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 – ...