Inspections of main rotor components returned to Airbus Helicopters in the wake of a 2 January ditching of an H160 ...

Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and 1950s, engineers experimented with strange designs and unique concepts, many of ...

Airbus Helicopters is testing a series of upgrades for the H135 light-twin, including a five-blade main rotor and T-tail design. First detailed by HeliOps magazine in mid-August, the enhancements ...

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 ...

Historical references to spinning flying machines go back hundreds of years, with evidence like the 12th-century Chinese twirling kite and Leonardo da Vinci's bizarre airscrew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

New images recently emerged raise the possibility that China has built another compound helicopter demonstrator, following ...

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 ...