Commercial Military Spin: Mass Casualties--Planning to Succeed Today's array of natural and terrorist disasters makes it imperative for states and municipalities to plan for and exercise mass casualty incident management. Planning must…
Products Modern Medevac Mobilized For combat wounded and civil disaster victims, speed really is life. The U.S. Army's UH-60Q and HH-60L medical evacuation helicopters blend the fast, long-ranged Sikorsky…
Commercial Offshore Notebook: Change is in the Wind Offshore-support companies are shaking up their operations as they struggle to prosper in baffling markets. Record high oil prices and warnings of natural gas shortages…
Commercial Rotorcraft Report The Canadian government has selected the S-92 over AgustaWestland's EH101 Cormorant for its maritime replacement helicopter. The announcement was made July 23. Final contracts will…
Commercial Rotorcraft Research at Maryland Purists become realists in quest to understand helicopter dynamics. Dr. Inderjit Chopra, Ph.D., has spent 30 years of his professional life trying to understand helicopter…
Commercial Safety watch On the morning of August 7, 1998, near Uvalde, Texas, a Hughes 269B helicopter was substantially damaged during a hard landing. According to the NTSB,…
Commercial Sky Coverage There is every possibility that either the Marquis d'Arlandes or Pilatre de Rozier sent down some news of the surrounding countryside on that first aerial…
Military Editor’s Notebook: Selling the Seed Corn Two competitions making headlines at Farnborough raised pointed questions about the future of the U.S. rotorcraft industry. The main event at the biennial gathering was…
Military Eurowatch: A Remarkably Consistent Record With admirable consistency, successive Canadian governments have mismanaged their helicopter procurement programs over the past 14 years, spending far too much to buy too little,…
Commercial Feedback VXX's Delay I'll just bet the U.S. Navy delayed the VXX competition to permit "more government-industry dialogue on design, performance, cost and trade opportunities." ("VXX…