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Emergency responders at the Mercy Flight crash that killed two pilots on April 26 in Elba have known that the Bell 429 helicopter landed in two pieces: the main body and the tail. Now a preliminary ...

Airbus Helicopters continues to eye novel architectures for future rotorcraft designs, including new compound and tail rotor-free configurations, patent applications reveal. A pair of filings – ...

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, ...

A tourist helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday, killing six people. A former military helicopter pilot told BI the helicopter's rotary system appears to have failed.