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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

No stranger to the skies, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s piloting skills are part of his well known resume.

Stating that “the V-22 must lead tiltrotor technology into the marketplace,” Bell Helicopter has opted to shelve its BA609 civil tiltrotor following first

Three of the eight U.S.

Scandinavian countries are famous for going their own way and it seems only fitting that one of what was originally four nations participating in the Nordi

Taking the pulse of the offshore oil industry is like grabbing a handful of the viscous mud drillers use for lubrication in the drilling process.

Working in its own quiet low-key way, Schweizer Aircraft has revealed its new 300CBi.

In the latest development of a helicopter program that could best be described as “better late than never,” Indian state-owned aerospace builder Hindustan

Pledging to build already successful long-time central Atlantic coast helicopter support and repair operation Keystone Helicopter into a $350 million busin

By now all the major arguments for helicopter use are well established, right? Time-saving hops over crowded urban areas.

While Bell Helicopter and program partner Agusta Aerospace are pondering their next moves in the ongoing saga of tiltrotor development (see page 1),

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

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