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In October 2023, Sikorsky captured attention at a defense show by unveiling the RAIDER X, their latest helicopter prototype.
Rainbow Air Helicopter Tours’ season has just begun — and it won’t be long before its aircraft are taking off from a new location. With construction ongoing since February 2024, the $15 ...
It’s a plane. It’s a helicopter. It’s both. Meet "FLRAA," the Army’s new tiltrotor for Future Long-Range Air Assault. This is how the Army will island hop in the Pacific to fend off China ...
The Texas-based firm’s V280-based design was selected by the US Army in 2022 as the winner of its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition, beating out a rival bid from Sikorsky.
A group of Army Aviation students who will participate in a proof-of-concept for a pilot program tha t is paving the way for "Flight School Next," which would establish a significant ...
Project Musher linked an Airbus H130-based FlightLab test aircraft and the prototype VSR700 with a Leonardo AW189 and Hero drone operating in Italy to prove the potential of a European CUC-T ...
Students participating in Flight School Next’s proof-of-concept received their olive drab hats, a color unique to this pilot program and a first for Army Aviation, designating them as Army ...
AeroVironment and NASA's JPL are developing "Skyfall," a system of six autonomous Mars helicopters to launch by 2028. Skyfall will utilize a novel "Skyfall maneuver," deploying from a mothership ...
While the going rate for a helicopter evacuation is around 30,000 yuan ($4,565) per hour, companies like Qian's offer discount schemes that can cut costs by as much as 50 percent in some cases.