Emergency workers and the obscenely rich love helicopters, and for good reason. Unlike airplanes, whirlybirds can take off and land almost anywhere, making them just the thing for tight spots and ...

Helicopters aren't the fastest things flying through the air, but they aren't all lumbering beasts either. While they're not supersonic like some jet airplanes, many military helicopters fly through ...

Sikorsky is building a coaxial-rotor high-speed helicopter technology demonstrator that will cruise at 250kt (460km/h), compared with 150-170kt for conventional helicopters. The tandem-seat, ...

Russian Helicopters has been contracted by the Russian Ministry of Defence to work on a new high-speed combat helicopter concept, the company announced on 24 August. Russian Helicopters will spend two ...

Russia has created a highly modified variant of its venerable Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter dubbed the "Prospective Speedy Helicopter" Demonstrator, or Demonstrator PSV. This testbed aircraft aims to ...

Bell Helicopter is beginning to manufacture parts for its new V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft, a next-generation helicopter being developed as part of the Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology ...

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has tested a wind tunnel model of a high-speed compound helicopter designed to cruise at 500 mph (270 kt.). By enabling flight at twice the speed of ...

Japanese researchers are studying a new design for a high-speed compound helicopter that could reach speeds of up to 270kt (500km/h). The concept, being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...