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 ...

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Helicopters have always looked like the scariest way to fly, with not one but two large and menacing rotors spinning at deadly speeds. Although one of them is probably too high to chop your neck off, ...

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 – ...