Bell has been quietly flight-testing an electric anti-torque system in a technology demonstration that could be a building block for its work on electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) mobility ...

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Helicopters have always looked like the scariest way to fly, with not one but two large and menacing rotors spinning at deadly speeds. Although one of them is probably too high to chop your neck off, ...

Since helicopters appeared some 80 years ago, they’ve used a single high-speed tail rotor to counteract the torque of the main rotor, stabilizing the aircraft in flight. But that rotor is both the key ...

Ordinarily on a helicopter, the main (top) rotor is mechanically linked to the tail rotor, so the spinning of the former causes the latter to do likewise. An experimental new system replaces the tail ...

MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/. The multirole helicopter Mi-38 will become the first one in Russia with a system enabling to continue flying in the icing zone, Mi-38 helicopter program director Roman ...

Bell has been test flying an electric anti-torque system on its 429 light twin since May. Unveiled on February 20, the Bell 429 flying with anti-torque has been in operation since May 2019.

Leonardo Helicopters has applied for a patent for a multifan electric anti-torque system that would reduce weight and noise levels compared with a traditional tail rotor system. The patent, filed with ...