Rotorcraft
AHS Head Details Group’s Activities
The organization founded more than 70 years ago by the pioneers of the industry is active today in many arenas.

Since 1943, the American Helicopter Society (renamed AHS International in 1997) has served as the world’s oldest and largest professional society for vertical flight, representing the designers, engineers and manufacturers of rotorcraft. In addition to serving as a conduit of information and technology amongst the industry, the group’s activities extend to lobbying, education and public outreach.

At a session here at Heli-Expo, AHS executive director Michael Hirschberg updated the audience on the group’s latest activities. Over the past year AHS’s lobbying efforts have been successful in the restoration of millions of dollars of vertical lift research funding to the budgets of the U.S. Army and NASA after they were initially slashed.

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