The Blackhawk helicopter is about to be replaced by the tiltrotor V-280 in the U.S. military. The new aircraft is much faster ...

For the simulation and evaluation of rotorcraft, the group uses its own highly modular research code MAECOsim, which can be used to aeromechanically simulate classic helicopter configurations with ...

The rotor of the helicopter from last week's deadly crash has been retrieved from the Hudson River, four days after the ...

With a total of four different test rigs of different sizes, wind tunnel tests can be carried out with helicopter models, with isolated main and tail rotors, fuselages and overall configurations. The ...

It's not a terribly common phenomenon, but it's happened before, particularly in smaller helicopters that have two rotor blades, Brauchle said. That configuration is typical for sightseeing ...

The aircraft was on a sightseeing flight when it suddenly broke apart in midair, its rotor blades falling separately toward ...

The main rotor of the doomed helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River was finally recovered Monday — which could provide crucial information as investigators continue to probe what caused ...