Rotorcraft

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

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Operator plans renovations at London heliport

Von Essen Hotels is investing approximately $15 million over the next 12 months to revamp the London Heliport, which it acquired earlier this year.

Rotorcraft

June 9, 2008

FAA Issues Bell Tail Rotor AD

Tail-rotor cracking has prompted the FAA to issue an Airworthiness Directive for Bell helicopters.

Safety

June 4, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Layoffs continue at Bell...

Coping with a slowdown in both commercial and military sales, Bell Helicopter has laid off 45 more nonunion employees, bringing to 800 the number of jobs i

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: ...as civil tiltrotor development slips

Despite the fact that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67A engines are installed on the first BA609 prototype tiltrotor, Bell is letting the development

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

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Rotorcraft Update: Helos for homeland defense

It’s a sad fact of economic life that there is often opportunity in tragedy, and while some helicopter industry leaders aren’t necessarily looking to cash

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Portugal goes for a gaggle of EH 101s

AgustaWestland scored a big win last month with the sale of 12 new search-and-rescue (SAR)-configured EH 101 helicopters to the Portuguese government.

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Powers get power from new Turbomeca engines

Agusta has delivered the first A109E Power to be driven by Turbomeca’s newly FAA-certified Arrius 2K1 engines to Erie, Pa.-based aeromedical transport prov

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Helicopters haul mountaintop privies

There are some jobs only helicopters can do.

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Putting it on the line: Koala proves its salt at Life Flight

For the helicopter owner, operator or flight program looking to cut costs while simultaneously maintaining or expanding existing levels of service, Agusta’

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

British International thinks big with scheduled tiltrotor service

British International has ambitions to introduce scheduled services in the UK within the next 10 years using the proposed Bell/Agusta BA619 tiltrotor airli

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Newscopters back on the air after frustrating restrictions

It took a deadly act of terrorism to knock the nation’s fleet of electronic newsgathering (ENG) helicopters out of the air and, ironically, it required ano

Rotorcraft

May 29, 2008

Sikorsky Gives X2 a Whirl

Sikorsky continues to inch toward flying its X2 technology demonstrator coaxial compound helicopter for the first time at its R&D and test facility in Hors

Rotorcraft

May 28, 2008

NYC helo operators fight for their future

The cancellation on October 12 of the three-mile temporary flight restriction (TFR 9841) encircling the World Trade Center, which had closed New York City’

Rotorcraft

May 27, 2008

CHC Scotia pilots win major North Sea wage concession

Averting a strike that would have shut down offshore helicopter operations throughout much of the North Sea, 200 helicopter pilots represented by the Briti

Rotorcraft

May 27, 2008

Rescue squabble revives NYC police, fire rivalry

On March 25, 1911, the worst factory fire in the history of New York City erupted in the three floors occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in a tall

Safety

May 27, 2008

Safe Flight's device warns of 'hot' power lines

After three years of development and testing, Safe Flight Instrument’s “Powerline Detector” system for helicopters received FAA supplemental type certifica

Safety

May 27, 2008

Did newscopters skirt FAA ENG ban?

FAA enforcers are pondering whether to press charges in the wake of a November 7 incident in which some Dallas-area TV stations apparently bent (but, they

Rotorcraft

May 27, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Nepalese princess killed in helicopter crash

Just a few months after her estranged husband was fatally shot along with eight other members of the Nepalese royal family, Princess Prekshya Shah, 49, was

Accidents

May 27, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Tail cracks detected on MD 600Ns

MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., said five MD 600Ns have exhibited cracks in the tailcone attachment area, and that an inspection bulletin is forthcoming to

Safety

May 27, 2008

Rotorcraft Update: Third AB139 takes off

The third and final pre-production Bell/Agusta AB139 has begun its flight-test program at Agusta’s Vergiate plant in Italy.

Rotorcraft

May 27, 2008

Rotorcraft

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Latest

Operator plans renovations at London heliport

Von Essen Hotels is investing approximately $15 million over the next 12 months to revamp the London Heliport, which it acquired earlier this year.

FAA Issues Bell Tail Rotor AD

Tail-rotor cracking has prompted the FAA to issue an Airworthiness Directive for Bell helicopters.

Rotorcraft Update: Layoffs continue at Bell...

Coping with a slowdown in both commercial and military sales, Bell Helicopter has laid off 45 more nonunion employees, bringing to 800 the number of jobs i

Rotorcraft Update: ...as civil tiltrotor development slips

Despite the fact that the Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6C-67A engines are installed on the first BA609 prototype tiltrotor, Bell is letting the development

Videos

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Rotorcraft Update: Helos for homeland defense

It’s a sad fact of economic life that there is often opportunity in tragedy, and while some helicopter industry leaders aren’t necessarily looking to cash

Rotorcraft Update: Portugal goes for a gaggle of EH 101s

AgustaWestland scored a big win last month with the sale of 12 new search-and-rescue (SAR)-configured EH 101 helicopters to the Portuguese government.

Rotorcraft Update: Powers get power from new Turbomeca engines

Agusta has delivered the first A109E Power to be driven by Turbomeca’s newly FAA-certified Arrius 2K1 engines to Erie, Pa.-based aeromedical transport prov

Rotorcraft Update: Helicopters haul mountaintop privies

There are some jobs only helicopters can do.

Putting it on the line: Koala proves its salt at Life Flight

For the helicopter owner, operator or flight program looking to cut costs while simultaneously maintaining or expanding existing levels of service, Agusta’

British International thinks big with scheduled tiltrotor service

British International has ambitions to introduce scheduled services in the UK within the next 10 years using the proposed Bell/Agusta BA619 tiltrotor airli

Newscopters back on the air after frustrating restrictions

It took a deadly act of terrorism to knock the nation’s fleet of electronic newsgathering (ENG) helicopters out of the air and, ironically, it required ano

Sikorsky Gives X2 a Whirl

Sikorsky continues to inch toward flying its X2 technology demonstrator coaxial compound helicopter for the first time at its R&D and test facility in Hors

NYC helo operators fight for their future

The cancellation on October 12 of the three-mile temporary flight restriction (TFR 9841) encircling the World Trade Center, which had closed New York City’

CHC Scotia pilots win major North Sea wage concession

Averting a strike that would have shut down offshore helicopter operations throughout much of the North Sea, 200 helicopter pilots represented by the Briti

Rescue squabble revives NYC police, fire rivalry

On March 25, 1911, the worst factory fire in the history of New York City erupted in the three floors occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in a tall

Safe Flight's device warns of 'hot' power lines

After three years of development and testing, Safe Flight Instrument’s “Powerline Detector” system for helicopters received FAA supplemental type certifica

Did newscopters skirt FAA ENG ban?

FAA enforcers are pondering whether to press charges in the wake of a November 7 incident in which some Dallas-area TV stations apparently bent (but, they

Rotorcraft Update: Nepalese princess killed in helicopter crash

Just a few months after her estranged husband was fatally shot along with eight other members of the Nepalese royal family, Princess Prekshya Shah, 49, was

Rotorcraft Update: Tail cracks detected on MD 600Ns

MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., said five MD 600Ns have exhibited cracks in the tailcone attachment area, and that an inspection bulletin is forthcoming to

Rotorcraft Update: Third AB139 takes off

The third and final pre-production Bell/Agusta AB139 has begun its flight-test program at Agusta’s Vergiate plant in Italy.

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Despite the fact that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67A engines are installed on the first BA609 prototype tiltrotor, Bell is letting the development