NASA is getting the best of both worlds as it tests future Mars helicopter designs both on Earth and the Red Planet for the first time, marking a historic milestone in aeronautical experimentation.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced on April 16 ...
Who hasn't been stuck in traffic and said, "I wish I could get out of this mess and fly over it all." That idea might be closer to reality than you think. An Austrian startup called FlyNow Aviation is ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk (left) and an AH-64D Apache ...
After more than two years on the red planet, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has broken two new records, NASA said. The helicopter on Sunday flew 14.5 miles per hour, beating its previous record of 13.4 ...
An artist's rendering shows the Bell 360 Invictus attack reconnaissance helicopter. Bell revealed the helicopter design as its entry into the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft ...
Sikorsky Aircraft announced Wednesday that it's challenging the U.S. Army's decision from earlier this month to award the service's next-generation helicopter contract to Bell Textron's design. The ...
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These planes may never be built - but they are some of the most creative new aircraft designs we have seen from Boeing, Airbus, and More. What are they, and what would they be like in reality? Let's ...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced Thursday it denied a protest filed by Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, and Boeing over the U.S. Army’s decision to award the ...
What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in ...
R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...