If there's one common trait shared by most helicopters, it's that they're light. And that's because it takes far less energy to lift something that's lighter, so the most efficient designs are often ...

The Farnborough Airshow is in full swing this week over in the UK, and as expected, a flood of news from the aviation industry keeps heading our way. This story's topic: a hybrid-electric helicopter ...

Russian Helicopters updated Ka-62 helicopters will now be available with French manufactured Turbomeca engines offering a significant boost to the company's aim to offer the Russian domestic civil ...

GE Aerospace appears poised to develop a “revolutionary” new turboshaft engine for rotary-wing applications in a project with Airbus Helicopters. At present, GE does not supply engines to the European ...

Airbus Helicopters is aiming to complete preliminary design work on the hybridisation of its H145-based PioneerLab technology demonstrator by mid-year, keeping the rotorcraft on track to take flight ...

These past few days have been pretty busy for the aviation industry, as the VERTICON helicopter exhibition was held in Dallas, Texas. Several novelties were announced during the event, including a ...

A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk (left) and an AH-64D Apache helicopter at Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains, in 2012. In February, the US Army leadership inexplicably ...

The impact of airborne particulates on aircraft engines is a challenge for aviation. Credit: Clay Lacy Aviation On May 24, 1988, TACA Flight 110, a Boeing 737-300, was flying from Belize to New ...