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UAVOS announces the successful implementation of an advanced manufacturing technology for its composite rotor blades: core sintering without additional mechanical processing. This technology ...

Improving helicopter performance while reducing noise and vibration is the aim of the international Smart Twisting Active Rotor (STAR) project. Led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum ...

The Boeing Co. has completed testing of a new composite rotor blade for the AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter, the company announced May 10. Recent flight tests at Boeing's rotorcraft facility in Mesa, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam ...

After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage to a blade during its ...

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 ...

Open rotor configurations have emerged as a promising avenue for achieving enhanced fuel efficiency and reduced emissions in modern propulsion systems, particularly in aviation and unmanned aerial ...

Airbus Helicopters is testing a series of upgrades for the H135 light-twin, including a five-blade main rotor and T-tail design. First detailed by HeliOps magazine in mid-August, the enhancements ...

(CNN) — After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to ...