Helicopters like this AH-46 Apache might have better speed, range, and payload capability using blades with embedded carbon nanotubes. Engineers at the Army Research Laboratory are exploring the use ...
Along with serving as a warning system, though, the setup could also be used simply to study the behaviour of rotor blades, helping in the design of longer-lasting, better-performing models. Although ...
A dual-rotor concept to improve helicopter performance achieved first flight more than a year after originally planned. Will the design live up to its promise? A futuristic helicopter prototype ...
This chapter focuses on those parameters that pertain to the manufacturing process for rotor blades. However, the design and the process are so interrelated that one can not be discussed without the ...
Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and ...
Air foil meshed cross section viewed in Gmsh and Contour plot of recovered nodal stress SN11. Photo Credit: AnalySwift LLC While great strides continue to be made in advanced air mobility (AAV), there ...
MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The Zhukovsky Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and the Mil Design Bureau have designed new rotor blades that make it possible to boost the speed of existing ...
Airbus Helicopters is to institute a series of modifications on the H145 that will increase the payload of the light-twin by 150kg (330lb). Key to the upgrade is a new bearingless five-blade main ...
New images recently emerged raise the possibility that China has built another compound helicopter demonstrator, following ...