A helicopter pilot failed to complete key checklist steps during a maintenance ground run at a Smithers hangar and was caught off guard when the aircraft suddenly spun, killing one worker and injuring ...

In the early 1950s, Hughes Aircraft pursued one of the most extreme helicopter experiments ever attempted. The result became ...

As the conflict in Vietnam raged, the UH-1 Huey was modified into a gunship, but the ubiquitous helicopter was slow and underpowered at times, thus prompting the need for a dedicated attack aircraft.

Most attack helicopter crews accept a brutal reality: if the aircraft goes down, escape options are extremely limited. The Kamov Ka-50 Black Shark challenged that assumption with one of the most ...

Before the helicopter became airborne, the fuel control level was not locked into the flight position, and neither the main rotor revolutions per minute (RPM) nor the engine RPM a ...

The LUH has not flown even once in nearly three months. Over the past year, it has barely left the ground at all. This ...

Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

New tactical vehicles with specialized guns and ammunition can lower the cost of blowing drones out of the sky.

The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau becomes the third aviation authority, alongside the FAA and EASA, to qualify Loft Dynamics' VR flight training technology, expanding access to high-fidelity simulator ...

A newly discovered problem with the Apache helicopter’s transmission is plaguing the Army’s fleet, just as funding woes have pushed the service to drastically cut flight hours and rapidly retire older ...

Could Cuba stop a U.S. military strike? Analysts say the island may be vulnerable militarily, but the aftermath could prove ...

One of them had been up since 3:30 a.m. The pilot had returned the night before from a week’s vacation in Florida with his family. The last part of that trip involved a 4-hr. drive home from the ...