A helicopter spun out of control and crashed in Huntington Beach last month after a small control part in its tail came loose ...

On advanced helicopter rotor systems, each blade is independently hinged to allow for flapping up and down as well as bending forward and back. This is done to compensate for certain aerodynamic ...

NH Industries is working to deliver a solution to an issue with the main rotor head on NH90 military helicopters that means the blades can impact the tail structure when starting or stopping the ...

Jan. 17--Severe vibration caused the crash of a Bell helicopter 525 Relentless that killed two pilots during testing in 2016, according to a final NTSB report published this week. Officials at the ...

The news was recently abuzz with stories of how the Mars 2020 mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral at the end of July, had done something that no other spacecraft had done before: it had ...

Investigators inspect the tour helicopter wreckage on Oneawa Street near Nowela Place in Kailua. Case said the lenient culture of the FAA has allowed the air tour industry to often cut corners and ...

Developed between 1951 and 1953 by a joint research team from the Air Force and Army, working with NASA and Sikorsky Aircraft, the XV-2 (model number S-57) was built to exceed the speed limitations of ...

Helicopters regularly have to get their rotor blades inspected, so they can be replaced if they're wearing out. Utilizing the BladeSense system, however, the aircraft would be able to self-monitor the ...

Can you make a silent stealth helicopter? The Franco-German-Spanish subsidiary of the European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Company, Eurocopter, has invented noise-canceling rotor blades that do away ...