Rotorcraft
News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.
Aircraft
Bell Unveils Military HSVTOL Vehicle Concepts
Bell’s vision is for a family of military air vehicles that can achieve speeds beyond those offered by the company’s current tiltrotor technology.
Rotorcraft
F. Lee Bailey's Enstrom Tenure Creative, Chaotic
Famed trial attorney and aviator F. Lee Bailey guided Enstrom Helicopter through a decade of achievement.
Rotorcraft
Commercial Helos Drive Bell's Q2 Deliveries, Revenue
Bell's profit in the second quarter of 2021 declined largely because of costs related to its Army Future Vertical Lift competition offerings.
Rotorcraft
Curti Brings Turbine Kit Copter to AirVenture
The Curti Zefhir kit helicopter carries a price of $500,000 during AirVenture.
Rotorcraft
Russian Helicopters Opens MAKS with Big Order, New Variants
Russian Helicopters is pushing new variants of popular legacy aircraft at Moscow's MAKS-2021 show.
Avionics
Garmin Autopilot Certified in Bell 505
The Bell 505 is the second helicopter model to be certified for installation of Garmin's GFC 600H helicopter flight control system.
Rotorcraft
Kit Copter Maker RX Enters eVTOL Market
Former Rotorway kit helicopter company entering the eVTOL market in partnership with Advanced Tactics.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Canadian Governments Pumping Billions into Green Aviation
PWC, Bell, and CAE could receive $685 million from Canada's support for electric aviation.
Engines
Hartzell Acquires Pre-heat Product Maker Tanis
Hartzell Propeller will move Tanis production to Ohio.
Rotorcraft
Leonardo Delivers First TH-73A Trainer Helicopter to U.S. Navy
Leonardo Delivers First TH-73A Trainer Helicopter to U.S. Navy
Environment
Joby Teams with JetBlue, Signature on Carbon Credits
Joby Aviation is joining forces with JetBlue and Signature Flight Support to establish carbon credits for flights using green electric and hydrogen.
Rotorcraft
Aero Asset: Twins Leading Used Helo Market
North America accounts for 50 percent of used twin engine helicopter sales worldwide.
Rotorcraft
FAA Approves Safran Arrano, Paves Way for Airbus H160
Safran Helicopter Engines’ Arrano 1A has received FAA type certification for installation in the Airbus Helicopters H160
Accidents
UK S-92 Near-CFIT Highlights Hazards of MVFR Flight
The UK S-92 helicopter low-altitude incident parallels circumstances of Kobe Bryant fatal crash.
Rotorcraft
South Africa's 'Rocket' Air Ambulance Service Takes Off
Rocket using Bell 222s to provide first-world air ambulance service in South Africa
Airports
Infrastructure Will Be Key To Unlocking Electric Aircraft Access in Cities
Infrastructure Will Be Key To Unlocking Electric Aircraft Access in Cities
Accidents
Another Firefighting Bell 212 Down
The sole occupant pilot survived the crash of a firefighting Bell 212 into California's Lake Shastina.
Rotorcraft
CAE, Volocopter Collaborate on eVTOL Pilot Training
Volocopter and aviation training group CAE are partnering to develop, certify, and deploy a pilot training program to support commercial eVTOL ops.
Regulations and Government
Bell 212 Crash Prompts Emergency AD
The FAA is mandating replacement of certain main rotor hub strap pins on Bell 204, 205, and 212 helicopter models following fatal crash in Canada.
Maintenance and Modifications
Aviation Blade Services Inks New S-70 Support Deal
Aviation Blade Services has a new partnership agreement to support the main and tail rotor blades on Taiwan's S-70/UH60s.
Maintenance and Modifications
Van Horn Developing AStar Tail Rotor
Van Horn expects its new tail rotor system for the Airbus AStar helicopter family to be available next year.
Rotorcraft
Bell Building Systems Integration Lab
Bell's SIL will support the Army's future vertical lift programs.
Rotorcraft
Bell Retires V-280 Demonstrator
Bell is retiring its V-280 tiltrotor demonstrator to focus on the Army's next phase of future vertical lift competition.
Rotorcraft
UK’s Royal Air Force Orders More Chinook Helicopters
With its latest order the RAF becomes the first export customer for the Block II version of Boeing's Chinook helicopter.
Accidents
Settlement Reached in Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash
Operator, pilot's estate, settle with families in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.
Aircraft
How New Electric Aircraft Could Transform Public Transportation
How New Electric Aircraft Could Transform Public Transportation
Accidents
Court Limits Access to NTSB Investigation Documents
U.S. Fifth Circuit rules that helitour crash counsel isn't entitled to view all interagency documents between the NTSB and parties to the investigation.
Aircraft
Skyports, Eve Step Up eVTOL UAM Vertiport Ops Plans
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions and Skyports are expanding their partnership on EVTOL vertiport ops.
Regulations and Government
EASA Intros Human Factors to Rotorcraft Cockpit Design
EASA airworthiness authorities must now ensure that human factors are considered during the design and certification process of rotorcraft cockpits.
Rotorcraft
SAF Group Adding Three More Airbus H145s to Fleet
SAF is adding three more five-bladed Airbus Helicopters H145s to its air ambulance fleet in France and Belgium.
