Commercial New Collins Electric Aircraft Lab Has High Voltage Goals A new $50 million high-voltage lab, “The Grid,” being built by Collins Aerospace in Rockford, Illinois, will serve as the design and testing center for…
Commercial NVH Group Wins Long-Term Offshore Contract with Premier Oil NHV Group was awarded a contract with Premier Oil to provide helicopter transport services to their offshore assets in the North Sea. For a period…
Military Airbus Joins Competition for Australia’s Special Forces Helicopter Airbus Helicopters confirmed it has responded to Australia’s search for a rapidly-deployable, multi-role light helicopter with its H145M — the military version of the Airbus…
Military US Army Plans to Divest All Alpha-Model Black Hawks by 2024 The U.S. Army plans to get rid of all its UH-60 Alpha-model Black Hawks from the National Guard by fiscal year 2022 and the active-duty…
Commercial Icelandic Coast Guard Upgrades Rescue Fleet with Airbus H225s Two Airbus H225 heavy search and rescue helicopters are entering service with the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) in April. The agency says this is the…
Commercial NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ready for Flight on the Red Planet In July 2020, NASA will send a new rover to Mars and in its belly will ride a helicopter capable of flight in the Red…
Military Air Force Looks to Field ‘Skyborg’ AI Concept by 2023 The Air Force Research Laboratory is aiming to field the new prototype autonomous, unmanned combat air vehicle dubbed “Skyborg” by 2023, the service said March…
Commercial UTC's Hybrid-Electric Regional Plane Promises 30 Percent Fuel Savings United Technologies Corp. has selected regional turboprops as its inroad to the electric transportation market, and it says its hybrid-electric solution could achieve a 30…
Military Army Selects Two Companies for RQ-7 Shadow Replacement Testing The U.S. Army has chosen two companies to produce unmanned aircraft systems to replace the RQ-7 Shadow scout drone, in use since 2001. The Army…
Commercial Newscopters: Japan's Mainichi Newspapers Receive New H135 with Helionix Airbus Helicopters delivered a new light twin H135 with state-of-the-art Helionix to Japan’s Mainichi Newspapers, bringing its total fleet of H135s to four aircraft. Jointly…
Commercial These Five Personal Flying Machine Designs Won GoFly Phase II Today, we see helicopters and planes flying constantly — but we don’t look to the sky and think, “That person is flying.” That’s the goal…