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Sikorsky engineers say the company's self-funded X2 advanced technology helicopter could reach 265kt (490km/h) or more in the next few months after a central sail fairing is installed on the rotor mast.

Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, MAK, has recommended a series of new measures to tighten control of general aviation as part of a report on the crash of a single-engined, Robinson R44 helicopter on 2 January that left the pilot with burns and destroyed the aircraft.

Russian Helicopters has completed delivery of 40 Mil Mi-171s from its Ulan-Ude Aviation plant to commercial operator UTair, three years after the order was placed by its fellow Russian company.

A biologically inspired graduate school project taken on by a University of Maryland student could become a money-making commercial venture for the doctoral aerospace engineering candidate later this year.

Sikorsky has achieved its ultimate goal of flying the X2 hybrid helicopter demonstrator at 250kt in level flight. Though not an official record, the...

Argentina's defence ministry has signed an estimated $30 million contract with Russia's Rosoboronexport for two Mi-171Es ...

KAMAN HAS risen five places to number 83 in our Top 100 after a year in which it won a five-year contract to build composite blade skins and core assemblies...

The US Special Operations Command and Boeing cut short flight tests of the YMQ-18A unmanned helicopter after one crashed in Belize ...

PZL Mielec used the MSPO exhibition to reveal its second Polish-manufactured Sikorsky S-70i International Black Hawk ...

Amidst slower US defence spending growth, Boeing will slash executive payroll by 10% and consolidate six divisions into four within the Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) business. The restructuring, effective on 1 October, eliminates the rotorcraft division as a standalone unit and merges the unmanned and missiles groups into the same unit, Boeing says. Four new divisions will support the business unit's "progression from a product-based business to a capaibilities-based business," BMA president Chris Chadwick says in a statement. "It is consistent with initiatives under way throughout the entire Boeing defence business that will allow us to remain competitive and grow." Shelley Lavender has been appointed head of the Global Strike division, which adds attack helicopters to the company's fighter business. Jean Chamberlin will lead the mobility business unit, with cargo helicopters added to airlift and tanker products. Bob Feldmann will assume con