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In a development that speaks volumes about the ongoing state of new helicopter technology development in America today, Boeing on July 12 revealed the 13th

Bogus and illegally manufactured parts have long been a danger in aviation, but arrests and convictions of the peddlers are generally rare.

Now that former city attorney James Hahn has been elected mayor of Los Angeles, helicopter operators using Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport might be getting a lit

Eurocopter president and CEO Jean-Francois Bigay has revealed plans to open HeliSim, a French-based helicopter training center with FAA level-D simulators

While its bigger cousin in the Marines stays grounded, work on the civil tiltrotor is proceeding in the same Bell Helicopter hangars from which the first p

Quietly making its debut at this summer’s Paris Air Show was Eurocopter’s long-awaited EC 145.

In a move that will bring its total fleet to 95 rotorcraft, aeromedical transport giant Rocky Mountain Helicopter has signed to buy 10 Eurocopter EC 130B4s

Petroleum Helicopters pilot Charles Getchell, 56, of Milton, Fla.

In certain oil-rich regions of Russia and its federated republics, natural gas is so abundant that it is treated as a waste product of the crude-oil extrac

Just weeks after proclaiming its market dominance at HAI’s Heli-Expo 2002, Eurocopter took a hit in its sales column with the news that France and Germany

Meanwhile, in the U.S.

Once asked his opinion of the almost 200-mi island stretching from the towers of Manhattan to the wet salt marshes and massive summer homes that are the pl

There is an insect called a cicada that burrows deep into the earth in its larval stage, slowly, quietly growing out of sight, feeding modestly on tree roo

A Eurocopter AS 350 helicopter crashed at the Tarnos, France factory of engine maker Turbomeca on March 26, killing company test pilot Eric Fortier, 41, an

As spring flooded north along America’s Atlantic seaboard, news from the tiltrotor front began to improve somewhat.

Date and time of birth was April 2, 2002, at 4:54 a.m.

It’s been a busy month for Sikorsky’s S-92 development team as the project moves toward approval by year-end.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims nearly a million lives a year in the U.S.