Military French Air Force Orders Additional H225M The French Air Force has ordered an additional heavy twin Airbus H225M helicopter to add to its existing fleet of 10. It will be delivered…
Commercial Vietnamese Company Offers Tourist Flights over Ha Long Bay with Bell 505 VNH North has begun offering the first-ever tourism helicopter flights over the country’s iconic Ha Long Bay, using light single-engine Bell 505 helicopters. The company,…
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…
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…
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…
Military Army Rotorcraft Acquisition The big overarching question: Will the service overcome previous procurement pitfalls associated with the RAH-66 Comanche — a $7 billion program cancelled by the Army…