Along with serving as a warning system, though, the setup could also be used simply to study the behaviour of rotor blades, helping in the design of longer-lasting, better-performing models. Although ...

Specially shaped helicopter rotor blades with a kink at the outer part make it possible to reduce the radiating annoying rotor noise [1]. Against this background, the aeroelastic behaviour together ...

AVIC Changfei has successfully made breakthrough in composite material co curing technology and developed the current largest composite materials rotor blade in Asia. The technology has established a ...

ADELPHI, Md. (June 10, 2013) -- A new study by Army researchers looks at inserting carbon nanotubes into the structural design of helicopter rotor blades to improve performance. The U.S. Army Research ...

Helicopters can perform some incredible aerobatic feats, but they’re also noisy, shaky, and expensive to run. NASA researchers are developing helicopter blades featuring a shape-shifting smart ...

Airbus Helicopters is to institute a series of modifications on the H145 that will increase the payload of the light-twin by 150kg (330lb). Key to the upgrade is a new bearingless five-blade main ...

Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and ...

Boeing has started windtunnel tests on a new rotor blade design which it expects to boost the CH-47 Chinook's cargo lift capacity by around 907kg (2,000lb). "The US Army said we need to increase lift ...

Bell Helicopter is beginning to manufacture parts for its new V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft, a next-generation helicopter being developed as part of the Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology ...

New images recently emerged raise the possibility that China has built another compound helicopter demonstrator, following ...