Typically, a rotor head has exposed structures which generate drag during flight and therefore slow down the helicopter. LATTE sought to solve this by encapsulating the rotor head within an ...

Modern, modular, and NATO-ready, the AW149 is emerging as Europe's next generation medium multirole helicopter built for the ...

October 28, 2008 Helicopters featuring coaxial rotor designs are not exactly new. The co-axial design of a pair of rotors mounted on the same mast and with the same axis of rotation, but turning ...

Typically, a rotor head has exposed structures which generate drag during flight and therefore slow down the helicopter. LATTE solves this by encapsulating the rotor head within an aerodynamic fairing ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. -- Before turbine engines took over the world of rotor-wing Aviation, a proof-of-concept system revolutionized helicopter flight with a radical new rotor design. The Lockheed CL ...

The AH-64 Apache is the most advanced American military helicopter and is heavily armed. As such, the aircraft needs to be ...

Marenco Swisshelicopter is testing a redesigned main rotor head for its SKYe SH09 light single and is now planning on obtaining EASA certification between June and October 2016, adding a few ...

The new system’s trick is in the control mechanism. A conventional tail rotor always operates at full speed because it’s mechanically linked to the main rotor; pilots adjust the pitch of the ...

Frank Nicolas Piasecki, an aviation pioneer who invented the twin-rotor technology that led to development of the widely flown Chinook heavy-lift helicopter, has died. He was 88.

Once the hydrogen peroxide motors spin the rotor up to approximately 750 RPM, the pilot simply pulls on a collective lever, similar to a normal helicopter, to climb to the desired altitude.

BLOOMSBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A pilot was killed when he was hit in the head by a helicopter rotor at a fair in Bloomsburg, Pa., a fair official said. Carl R. Enlow, 69, of the Reading area ...