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FAA enforcers are pondering whether to press charges in the wake of a November 7 incident in which some Dallas-area TV stations apparently bent (but, they

Just a few months after her estranged husband was fatally shot along with eight other members of the Nepalese royal family, Princess Prekshya Shah, 49, was

The third and final pre-production Bell/Agusta AB139 has begun its flight-test program at Agusta’s Vergiate plant in Italy.

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In an independent assessment of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor program conducted by NASA at the request of the U.S.

The whole idea of a business trip is to do some business, and that’s exactly what Embraer’s Legacy business jet did last month, when it first touched down

Writing in the spring 2000 issue of the FAA’s Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical Bulletin, Rogers Shaw, team coordinator of the FAA’s Civil Aerospace Medical In

The next time you fly, soak a terrycloth hand towel so that it’s dripping wet and hang it up on the flight deck.

In a move that will bring its total fleet to 95 rotorcraft, aeromedical transport giant Rocky Mountain Helicopter has signed to buy 10 Eurocopter EC 130B4s

Now that former city attorney James Hahn has been elected mayor of Los Angeles, helicopter operators using Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport might be getting a lit

In a development that speaks volumes about the ongoing state of new helicopter technology development in America today, Boeing on July 12 revealed the 13th

A Sikorsky S-76 hit an electrical tower near the port city of Chinhae, South Korea,  on July 5 and crashed into the sea, killing eight of the 12 peopl

Phoenix-based Simula has been awarded a $11.1 million contract for 490 front and side cockpit airbag shipsets for U.S.

Eurocopter president and CEO Jean-Francois Bigay has revealed plans to open HeliSim, a French-based helicopter training center with FAA level-D simulators

Quietly making its debut at this summer’s Paris Air Show was Eurocopter’s long-awaited EC 145.

While its bigger cousin in the Marines stays grounded, work on the civil tiltrotor is proceeding in the same Bell Helicopter hangars from which the first p

Bogus and illegally manufactured parts have long been a danger in aviation, but arrests and convictions of the peddlers are generally rare.

Just weeks after proclaiming its market dominance at HAI’s Heli-Expo 2002, Eurocopter took a hit in its sales column with the news that France and Germany

A Eurocopter AS 350 helicopter crashed at the Tarnos, France factory of engine maker Turbomeca on March 26, killing company test pilot Eric Fortier, 41, an

Once asked his opinion of the almost 200-mi island stretching from the towers of Manhattan to the wet salt marshes and massive summer homes that are the pl

Petroleum Helicopters pilot Charles Getchell, 56, of Milton, Fla.

In certain oil-rich regions of Russia and its federated republics, natural gas is so abundant that it is treated as a waste product of the crude-oil extrac

Meanwhile, in the U.S.

It’s been a busy month for Sikorsky’s S-92 development team as the project moves toward approval by year-end.

Date and time of birth was April 2, 2002, at 4:54 a.m.

As spring flooded north along America’s Atlantic seaboard, news from the tiltrotor front began to improve somewhat.

There is an insect called a cicada that burrows deep into the earth in its larval stage, slowly, quietly growing out of sight, feeding modestly on tree roo

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims nearly a million lives a year in the U.S.

Walking away from a wage settlement endorsed by their own union leadership, 8,000 rank and file members of Local 712 of the International Association of Ma

Next to fighter jocks, helicopter pilots are probably the most iconoclastic flavor of aviators flying today.