focused on the design and production of a distinctive rotor head assembly/fairing for the RACER. The rotor head is a critically important component of the helicopter and is located at the intersection ...

A Bulgarian aerodynamics expert has invented a new kind of helicopter rotor that flaps up and down as it spins. The idea is to save energy, but will the ride be too bumpy? According to this week's ...

It has to do with the mechanical design and function ... allows the rotor to change its direction of thrust and thus change the direction of flight for the helicopter. Cyclic control also allows ...

The new rotor design has resulted in increasing Time Between Overhauls (TBO) and therefore in low life-cycle costs, better hub design, and superior handling qualities. Torsion Bar for a main ...

Someday, the Army could welcome a new scout helicopter ... obvious design differences present themselves between the two aircraft prototypes: Bell’s aircraft employs a single main rotor up ...

From its emergence as a ground-breaking design in the 1950s to its widespread deployment ... The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an iconic twin-engine, tandem-rotor heavy-lift transport helicopter that has ...

The Chinook helicopter is able to fly on one engine, albeit with degraded performance capabilities. However, the failure of one of its rotors would most likely prove to be fatal. The rotor systems ...

The introduction of the helicopter changed how armies operate ... opposite directions), which negated the need for a tail rotor. This design concept carried on after the war when Anton Flettner ...

Dive teams returned to the Hudson River Saturday to try and recover the final pieces of wreckage from Thursday's fatal helicopter crash ... "If you picked up the rotor head, you can look at ...

A catastrophic failure of the rear rotor mechanism was the cause of ... which likely exceeded the helicopter’s design requirements, damaged the lower fuselage and the helicopter’s fuel tanks ...