Commercial Helideck Safety Standards Since 1988, HSAC has published over 33 Recommended Practices (RPs), offering recommended methods of accomplishing a listed procedure in a safe manner. Of these, 15…
Safety Is My Helicopter Airworthy? The words on the airworthiness certificate provide the basis for determining whether an aircraft is safe to fly and are followed by some specific actions…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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,…
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 Helicopter Industry's 2018 Year in Review The U.S. military is on the cusp of adopting revolutionary new rotorcraft technologies that will rival even the introduction of the V-22 Osprey. Two very…