Engineers at the Army Research Laboratory are exploring the use of carbon nanotubes to make helicopter blades perform better. Nanotubes have been shown to dissipate energy when embedded in small ...

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 ...

Along with serving as a warning system, though, the setup could also be used simply to study the behaviour of rotor blades, helping in the design of longer-lasting, better-performing models. Although ...

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 ...

Robinson Helicopter is building towards a maiden sortie of its new R88 flagship towards the end of next year, with parts for ...

AVIC Changfei has successfully made breakthrough in composite material co curing technology and developed the current largest composite materials rotor blade in Asia. The technology has established a ...

Images surfaced a while back of a new helicopter-jet hybrid from the Kamov helicopter company. Kamov previously designed the highly capable KA-50 and 52 families, both of which are robust, sturdy ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global helicopter blades market report for the period between 2016-2020. According to Technavio’s market ...

Prototype Neighbourly Helicopter designed to be up to 9dB less noisy than proposed limits and could fly in two years Eurocopter aims to fly a technology demonstrator within two years as part of plans ...