They say that drummers make the best helicopter pilots, because to master the controls of rotary-wing aircraft, you really need to be able to do something different with each limb and still have all ...

While quadcopters seem to attract all the attention of the moment, spare some love for the rotary-wing aircraft that started it all: the helicopter. Quads may abstract away most of the aerodynamic ...

The science behind how helicopters turn midair is straightforward enough. Most of them usually come with main and tail rotors, which spin to create lift for the craft. This lift can be controlled by ...

Horizon Aeronautics is prototyping an eVTOL hovercycle concept that uses a complex and interesting split-swashplate "Blainjett" variable pitch rotor system that only exposes half of each fan. Very odd ...

Active control of helicopter rotor blades can increase performance and reduce noise and vibration, but it is no easy task. Routing power and signals to actuators that operate under high loads on a ...

EASA has issued an emergency airworthiness directive mandating inspection of the swashplate bearing on Airbus H160 helicopters before any cleaning of the bearing, every 15 flight hours, or every seven ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) chief DK Sunil on Tuesday said that a “swashplate fracture” caused the crash of a coast guard Dhruv advanced light helicopter (ALH) at Porbandar in Gujarat on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Understanding lubrication failures at the shoe/swashplate contact of automotive swashplate compressors will greatly enhance the reliability of ...