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, ...

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 ...

European safety regulators have warned of a potentially unsafe condition with the tail rotor assemblies of Leonardo Helicopters AW169 and AW189 rotorcraft. Although the move follows the fatal crash of ...