After the reveal of Sikorsky's pilotless Black Hawk, European rival Leonardo just flew its new uncrewed helicopter design

The British Royal Navy on Friday said "the UK's first truly autonomous full-size helicopter," Leonardo's Proteus, completed ...
Machine Design

Are nanotubes key to better helicopter blades?

Engineers at the Army Research Laboratory are exploring the use of carbon nanotubes to make helicopter blades perform better. Nanotubes have been shown to dissipate energy when embedded in small ...
New Atlas

Onboard rotor blade-monitoring system gets put to the test

Along with serving as a warning system, though, the setup could also be used simply to study the behaviour of rotor blades, helping in the design of longer-lasting, better-performing models. Although ...
CompositesWorld

One-shot compression molding enables main rotor blades that achieve 20,000 hours between overhauls

Hill Helicopters engineered composite main rotor blades using a novel single-cure manufacturing process for stiffness and ...
Flightglobal

Airbus Helicopters boosts H145 with new five-blade rotor

Airbus Helicopters is to institute a series of modifications on the H145 that will increase the payload of the light-twin by 150kg (330lb). Key to the upgrade is a new bearingless five-blade main ...
TASS

Russian hi-tech firms design new blades to boost combat helicopters’ speed

MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The Zhukovsky Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and the Mil Design Bureau have designed new rotor blades that make it possible to boost the speed of existing ...
Flightglobal

HAL finalises 13t helicopter design to replace Mi-17s

Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) is moving ahead with its Indian Multi-Role Helicopter (IMRH) programme. Speaking to FlightGlobal, G Syam Nath, executive director, HAL, says the IMRH design has been frozen ...