TOP NEWS Commercial Here Are the eVTOL Aircraft Concepts On Display at Uber Elevate The third annual Uber Elevate summit is taking place this week in Washington, D.C., and the rideshare giant and its partners are using the opportunity to present their visions for futuristic urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles capable of moving people at operating costs far below traditional helicopters. Uber isn't betting on any one vehicle. It…
Military France's Do-It-All H160M Cheetah to Get Matching Thales Avionics The French military will equip its Airbus H160 variant — the "Guépard," or cheetah — with Thales' FlytX avionics suite. FlytX is a touchscreen-centric system…
Military Collins Aerospace Sees Big Demand For New, Retrofit 'Fly-By-Wire' System PARIS AIR SHOW -- Collins Aerospace [UTX] and Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky [LMT] are highlighting an advanced fly-by-wire retrofit kit to allow autonomous flight in medium and heavy helicopters…
Commercial GE Sees Bright Decade Ahead in Military and Commercial Aircraft Engines PARIS AIR SHOW--Bolstered by its win in February in the U.S. Army Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), General Electric [GE] sees a bright decade ahead…
Safety Making Connections Most aircraft, if you boil the concept very far down, are essentially very complex connectors. Increasingly, as they transport people from one place to another,…
Commercial UPDATED: Connectivity Essential for Safety Catching a potential failure of a single bearing inside the transmission of an S-70 Firehawk before it breaks could mean the difference between an $8,000…
Military The UN’s Helo Fleet The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a pivotal moment in history with many positive and negative effects, but one clear good has…
Commercial Hybrid Electric Helicopters Say “electric” or “hybrid-electric” engines, and what comes to mind for many is urban air mobility, on-demand air taxis and the 160 companies salivating for…
Military Opportunity in Europe Faced with existing geopolitical threats and the ongoing militarization of Russia, some European Union countries have announced plans to renew and significantly expand their military…
Public Service ‘It’s a Responsibility’ The U.S. Virgin Islands — Flying five hundred feet over the harbor at the foot of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Maria Rodriguez points out the…
Commercial UK Helicopter Market Vs. Brexit The U.K. helicopter charter market is overwhelmingly — up to 90 percent — an export industry, according to Simon Mitchell of Starspeed, part of Luxaviation…
Safety Keeping a Safety MINDSPACE Helicopter operators often use safety management systems (SMSs) to identify and control safety risks, with the word "system" implying a complex arrangement of integral parts…
Uncategorized Coming Up: July/August 2019 Coming up in the July/August 2019 issue of Rotor & Wing International: Pilot Training: There are too many helicopters and too few trained, certified pilots to fly…
Military Northrop Grumman Looking To Offer Laser Weapon Capability For Army’s Short-Range Air Defense