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“Everybody talks about the weather,” Mark Twain once famously quipped, “but nobody ever does anything about it.”

The sound barrier amounts to ro

Unfazed by (or perhaps because of) murmurs from within Bell Helicopter management to the effect that development of the BA609 might be accelerated, Agusta-

In a move sure to amaze Western rotorcraft makers, Russia’s Kamov has announced it will sell a hoped-for total of 145 of its Ka-50-2 Black Shark helicopter

Just a few short years ago, the manufacturers of small, low-cost helicopters targeted Asia as the market of the future for their brand of inexpensive verti

North Sea operations giant CHC Helicopter has won contracts worth $44 million to provide helicopter service throughout the world.

In one of the highest death tolls from a civil helicopter crash in recent memory, 27 offshore oil workers as well as the crew of a Mil Mi-172 were killed A

As we round the corner past the U.S.

The merger of Russia’s two leading helicopter makers is inevitable, according to Sergey Mikheyev, constructor general of Kamov, one of the two companies in

The history of the Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey military tiltrotor is that of the rankest of Hollywood cliffhangers.

Just a few years ago Eurocopter scored a major coup at an HAI Heli-Expo show, amazing the crowds by introducing a new helicopter as a completely certified

Mere months after a corporate shakeup rocked Enstrom Helicopter to the roots of its mahogany row, the Menominee, Mich.-based rotorcraft manufacturer celebr

PMA parts maker Extex is finding current business so good it has embarked on an ambitious new expansion program.

Thanks to the many miracles of modern optics, modern aerial surveillance crews can zoom in their lenses from improbable distances and get razor-sharp image

Keystone Helicopter’s engine services division announced that it won Rolls-Royce’s program investment award.

It’s a story right out of the Wild West.

Safe Flight Instrument Corp.

While praising the efforts of his predecessor, Bell Helicopter’s freshly appointed CEO has been offering his own vision of the future for the beleaguered r

Dean Borgman, president of Sikorsky Aircraft since 1998, has been appointed chairman of the company.