The fundamental design principles behind rotary-wing aircraft date back to the Renaissance, with some of the earliest-known designs belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. Naturally, technology has ...

Emergency responders at the Mercy Flight crash that killed two pilots on April 26 in Elba have known that the Bell 429 helicopter landed in two pieces: the main body and the tail. Now a preliminary ...

A video that began to circulate on social media today shows a Ka-52 flying at a relatively low level, with its tail torn apart, the remnants of the vertical fin dangling precariously from the rear. A ...

Airbus Helicopters continues to eye novel architectures for future rotorcraft designs, including new compound and tail rotor-free configurations, patent applications reveal. A pair of filings – ...

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that they are investigating the possibility of a bird strike in the helicopter crash Thursday that killed six people. It’s one of ...

A new video shows a Ukrainian FPV drone attacking a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter, apparently hitting its tail assembly. A second video shows a Russian Ka-52 helicopter shooting down a Ukrainian ...