This helicopter has dual-crossing rotors for ... rotors eliminating the need for a tail rotor. These opposite-spinning rotors lend the K-MAX a natural tendency to hover, making it more stable.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company has successfully validated the advanced control laws to successfully fly a ‘rotor blown ...

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GE Aerospace recently announced that Bell Textron, Inc. has approved the use of the rotor analysis diagnostic system-next ...

The Robinson crashed into a stationary helicopter, causing the propellers to collide with the other aircraft before ...

Aerospace giant Sikorsky announced it has conducted a series of flight tests for the rotor blown wing drone being developed ...

But thanks to a doctoral thesis he found, it’s also possible to control a traditional single-rotor helicopter by substituting ... single revolution when it’s spinning at 3,000 RPM is no ...

as seen in helicopters and multirotors. A much less popular solution is the cyclocopter, which consists of a pair of rotors spinning around a horizontal shaft with horizontal blades. [Nicholas ...

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Virginia — The air around the soldiers is filled with the whirring noise of the helicopter rotors spinning as the blades cut through the air, keeping the helicopter aloft.

Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), flying its prototype in both helicopter and “winged aircraft” mode through a ...