Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet ...
Jalopnik

NASA Is Making A Nuclear-Powered Dragonfly Helicopter Straight Out Of Dune

The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University, on behalf of NASA's New Frontiers Program, has begun construction of a nuclear-powered rotorcraft drone named Dragonfly. Appearing for ...
AOL

Airbus is making a rugged tablet for helicopter crews to control a drone team while flying at high speed

Airbus is trialing new software that allows helicopter crews to control a team of drones while the chopper flies at high speeds. The company recently tested the technology, called HTeaming, in trials ...
New Atlas

Black Hawk swaps cockpit for cargo doors to go fully autonomous

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire ...
autoevolution

Airbus Fits Wings on a Helicopter It Is Making for NATO

It’s been two years since the Europeans committed to developing their own new medium-lift helicopter, and we kind of forgot all about it by now. Luckily, the first company tasked with coming up with ...
EMS1

Mont. air ambulance service seeks $2M for new helicopter

The Logan Health Foundation is raising funds to buy a Bell 429 helicopter, which would give ALERT more space, safety and ...