TOP NEWS Military At 30, Osprey Matures Beyond Controversy to Become Most Sought-After U.S. Military Aircraft Thirty years ago, on March 19, 1989, the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey first broke contact with the ground, initiating a program that would suffer tragic trials before entering service and becoming one of the most in-demand combat aircraft in the U.S. military fleet. More than 375 Osprey tiltrotors — the only aircraft of its kind in…
Commercial White House to Nominate Former Delta Air Lines Executive as FAA Administrator The White House has announced the nomination of Stephen Dickson, former senior vice president for flight operations at Delta Air Lines, as the next FAA…
Commercial Genesis Aerosystems Seeks FAA Certification for VFR Stability Augmentation System for Bell 505 Texas-based Genesys Aerosystems is seeking FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) of a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) version of the Helicopter Stability Augmentation System (HeliSAS) autopilot…
Military Army Budget Kickstarts Future Drone Development to Replace RQ-7 Shadow The U.S. Army has dedicated $12 million in its fiscal 2020 budget request to kickstart development of a Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) to eventually…
Uncategorized It’s Electric Another year, another HeliExpo looms as the helicopter market is both on a cautious upswing and realizing some major changes from within. In our cover…
Commercial The Next Decade The next decade looks to be one of modest declines or steady-state sales for the rotorcraft industry in both the civil and military markets worldwide,…
Commercial eVTOLution–Gaining Ground The urban air mobility (UAM) vision of carrying a high volume of commuters and other passengers affordably and quickly to their destinations in several dozen…
Commercial A Day in the Life–Flying Offshore The Gulf of Mexico is a seabed that seems to offer a never-ending supply of crude oil and natural gas, covered by 587,000 square miles…
Uncategorized Multi-Mission–Old Birds Keep On Whirlin’ From the get-go, the appeal of dual-purpose aircraft was evident. WWI combat planes were retained postwar as airmail conveyors and, just as popularly, as entertainment…
Commercial Modern Engine Updates From rotary, radial and reciprocating gasoline engines used on first-generation helicopters to gas turboshaft engines found on modern helicopters, an engine’s function is to provide…
Commercial Single-Engine IFR Rotorcraft technology is advancing faster than regulations can be rewritten to account for new capabilities, like safely flying single-engine aircraft in foul weather or soon,…
Safety A Taste of Maintenance Magic Hopefully, you enjoyed the holiday traditions that wrapped up 2018 and got through your New Years’ celebrations relatively unscathed. For the last 70 years, the…
Military Defiant Mystery As of this writing, the much-anticipatedSB-1 Defiant compound helicopter has yet to break its earthly bonds. The Sikorsky-Boeing team building the aircraft has played most…
Public Service Living to Fly I recently fell off my barn roof. I fell 13 feet, missing a wheelbarrow by four feet. I compression-fractured two vertebrae and broke two ribs.…
Uncategorized Coming Up March/April 2019 Army Aviation Update: Ahead of the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual symposium in April, we look at where the Army stands with…
Military Northrop Grumman Looking To Offer Laser Weapon Capability For Army’s Short-Range Air Defense