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…
Commercial Thales Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Psibernetix Bolstering its capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), France's Thales said earlier this month that it acquired Ohio-based Psibernetix, which has developed processes that enable AI…
Commercial Leonardo To Debut New Aircraft Threat Warning System in Paris Leonardo will exhibit a new missile warning system at the Paris Air Show this year that offers enhanced situational awareness and survivability for aircraft crews…
Commercial Kopter's Third Prototype Passes Inspection After 100 Hours of Flight Kopter’s third prototype SH09 has flown nearly three dozen test sorties and spent about 100 hours off the ground since reaching Sicily in March. The…
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