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Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter Innovation promises a brighter future. Here is a look at 10 of this year's brilliant innovators and their inventions. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
A Fast Helicopter's Slow Revival David Jenney, a key developer of the Black Hawk helicopter, sees his high-speed ambitions fulfilled mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Jeff Wise
High-Speed Helicopter Revolution: Sikorsky's Dual-Rotor Design Sikorsky Aircraft is testing a chopper that uses two sets of blades that spin in opposite directions as part of a suite of advances that should achieve nearly twice the speed of a conventional helicopter. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
October 2009
Tim McKeough
Sikorsky's X2 Technology Doubles Chopper Speed The typical helicopter today chugs along at a respectable 150 miles per hour. With its aptly named X2 Technology, chopper maker Sikorsky hopes to have new helicopters flying nearly twice as fast. mark for My Articles similar articles
Aviation History
July 29, 2004
Craig Roberts
It Flies Like a Hummingbird The road to wedding helicopter ascents with fixed-wing speed was paved with bizarre flying contraptions. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2011
Eric Beidel
Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean
Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2011
Eric Beidel
New Aircraft Concept Promises More Speed, Endurance An engineer has designed a vertical take-off and landing aircraft that may be able to fly faster and farther than today's helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Joe Hasler
X2 Helicopter Gurus Pay Homage to Engineering Inspirations The team that designed the world's fastest helicopter explain how they got into the biz. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
David Schneider
Helicopters Go Electric Electric flight takes on the final frontier mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2010
Eric Beidel
Helicopter Could Become Military's Fastest The manufacturer of the Army's Black Hawk helicopters now may have built the world's fastest whirlybird. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2013
Valerie Insinna
Future Vertical Lift Takes Step Forward Army officials have been talking for almost a decade about new vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to replace its aging fleets of helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson
Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2014
Eric Braganca
Affordable Options Available to Upgrade Military Helicopters While many portions of the defense budget are shrinking, the portion allocated to purchasing helicopters is falling through the floor over the next few years. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 2005
Ron Berler
Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2007
Frank Colucci
'Sandblaster' Gives Helicopter Pilots Hope for Safer Landings As early as this fall, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be testing a new landing system for military helicopters that promises safer flying in brownouts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005
Sikorsky Designs Helicopters with SGI Servers Engineers will use the SGI computers to analyze digital prototypes in computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. Sikorsky deployed the SGI solutions to support computer-aided engineering design and analyses of current and future aircraft. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Anthony Colozza
Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2012
Dan Parsons
Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2015
Stew Magnuson
King Stallion Heavy Lift Program On Track for 2019, Say Marines The Echo-models of the Marine Corps' primary heavy lift helicopter are aging, and routine work to keep them flying must be done as the service awaits the new CH-53K King Stallion, which is scheduled to enter the force in 2019. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 21, 2010
Are Gyroplanes Deathtraps or Fun Flying Machines? Helicopters and gyroplanes: It's a contentious family rivalry. Both have spinning rotors and are highly maneuverable at low speed. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
May 2007
Stew Magnuson
Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Rafal Zbikowski
Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2012
Stew Magnuson
After 50 Years, There Is No End in Sight for the Chinook April will mark the 50th anniversary of when the service received the first delivery of the twin-rotor, heavy-lift chopper. And of all the aircraft its manufacturer The Boeing Co. has produced since 1910, the Chinook is by far the company's longest lasting, and most enduring product. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Willie D Jones
Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
October 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh
Future Vertical Lift Could Be Shot in the Arm for Industry The Army's forthcoming future vertical lift program -- which would replace thousands of aging helicopters -- will rejuvenate the United States' stagnant military helicopter market, experts and executives said. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems supplies transducers for military helicopter avionics Curtiss-Wright will provide multi-channel linear variable displacement transducers for the helicopter avionics fly-by-wire systems controlling the main rotor and tail rotor on the upgraded Sikorsky UH-60M and CH-53K military helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
Aviation History
July 27, 2004
Bud Walker
Captain John Miller In the 1930's, the test pilot had what it took to fly the weird ones -- the autogiro and the Grumman J2F Duck. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
March 2009
Stew Magnuson
Skepticism, Inter-Service Rivalry Surrounds Joint Heavy Lift Aircraft Program Just when the Army and the Air Force appear to have settled disagreements over which service will control unmanned aerial vehicles and operate a new light cargo aircraft, along comes a new turf battle. mark for My Articles similar articles
Inc.
May 2008
Leigh Buchanan
Legacy: Frank Piasecki, 1919-2008 Frank Piasecki's aviation and business breakthrough: the Flying Banana. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy
Race Is on to Replace Air Force Search and Rescue Helicopter Maneuvering already has begun in a competition for a lucrative contract for a new Air Force "personnel recovery vehicle," built to rescue downed aircrews and others who find themselves isolated on the battlefield. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 2006
Jim Gorman
'We don't have any engines' Two joyriding pilots took a jet to its 41,000-ft. ceiling -- and paid for the stunt with their lives. PM investigates the crash of Flight 3701. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2005
Frank Colucci
Helicopter Suppliers Must Modernize, Says Defense Industrial Policy Chief The Defense Department predicts that military helicopter suppliers will recover from the current slump in aircraft production if they invest in new manufacturing technologies. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2006
Harold Kennedy
Whose chopper has the right stuff for the Air Force? Three industry teams are competing to produce the Air Force's next-generation combat search and rescue helicopter, dubbed the CSAR-X. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2005
Frank Colucci
Sensors Aboard Helicopters Can Help Predict Parts Failures Health-and-usage monitoring systems (HUMS) now are in development for the Army's new UH-60M Black Hawk and Block III AH-64D Apache helicopters. HUMS help track the wear and tear of aircraft components. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
September 2005
Frank Colucci
Safety Upgrades Could Delay New Presidential Helicopter The helicopter chosen to carry the nation's chief executive meets civil aviation safety requirements, but it will require modifications to satisfy more stringent military specifications. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
December 2003
Roxana Tiron
Unmanned Aircraft Adapting To Army Future Force Needs The Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate is testing technologies and concepts that would allow helicopters to remotely control unmanned aerial vehicles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Aviation History
January 2007
Otto Kreisher
The Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War's early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict's end. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
July 2014
Valerie Insinna
Tiltrotor Sales Unlikely to Take Off, Industry Veteran Says Sergei Sikorsky is skeptical that tiltrotor aircraft will take the place of conventional helicopters. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
June 2005
Joe Pappalardo
The Future May Belong to Unconventional Designs, Missions Unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies may be commonplace above today's battlefields, but there is a future generation of unconventional designs with added functions that, experts predict, almost certainly will displace current drones from their lonely, lofty perches. mark for My Articles similar articles
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2009
Matthew Rusling
U.S. Special Operations Command Weighs Deployment of Armed Drones The Boeing A160T Hummingbird, originally a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is undergoing a series of tests at a Boeing Co. facility mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2014
Valerie Insinna
Decline of U.S. Helicopter Procurement on the Horizon After a decade-long period of surging sales and rapid expansion, the military helicopter buying boom is coming to an end. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
April 22, 2009
Mechanics at War in Afghanistan (With Attack Chopper Photo Gallery) A report on the unsung wrench-turners who prepare helicopters for flights and fights over Afghanistan. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Joe Pappalardo
Pentagon Turns to Engineers for Troop Transport Fix in Iraq: Analysis (With 6 Next-Gen Chopper Designs!) The Army and Air Force will seek Pentagon approval for the development of new aircraft that can carry big loads and land on poorly built, short runways -- or no runways at all. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
January 2012
Dan Parson
Marines' Beloved Chopper Replacement at Risk For Cpl. Lauren von Tersch and Lance Cpl. Aaron Oldham, the afternoon's training flight will be their first ride in the latest version of the Marine Corps's standby utility helicopter, the UH-1Y, or Yankee, newly landed at the Jacksonville, N.C., installation. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2005
Roxana Tiron
Special Ops Aviators Hone Skills for Desert, Over-Water Group 18, the air wing of the United Arab Emirates' special operations command, flies in challenging conditions to protect the royals and resources of United Arab Emirates. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Philip E. Ross
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. mark for My Articles similar articles