Helicopter

After 150 hours of envelope expansion flights, the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter has been cleared by the US Air Force for initial an production run of 113 helicopters.

Engineers have attached what could be the first ever helicopter to fly on another world, to NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.

​A newly-installed clean room webcam at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is giving members of the public a front row seat as technicians and engineers assemble the Mars 2020 rover.

The US Air Force's next rescue helicopter took to the skies for the first time on Friday. Based on the venerable UH-60M Black Hawk​, the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter​ will replace the HH-60G, which entered service in 1982.

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant helicopter has taken to the air for the first time at the Sikorsky facility in West Palm Beach. Designed to have twice the speed and range of conventional rotorcraft, the demonstrator aircraft is being developed as part of the US Army's Future Vertical Lift program.

​​Describing a helicopter as "optionally piloted" might not do much to comfort those onboard, but this is the future DARPA is aiming for with its Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS).

When NASA's Mars 2020 rover touches down on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will carry something never seen before off Earth – a helicopter. The Mars Helicopter is a small, autonomous rotorcraft that has the potential to revolutionize the study of other planets

Martyn and Louise Steedman​, the owners of Mains Farm Wigwams, have converted a decommissioned Sea King helicopter into a luxury tiny dwelling that is now available to glamping and tiny house enthusiasts.

​When the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers go into service in 2020, they'll be watched over by a new generation of eyes in the sky called the Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance System.

With a claimed service height quadruple that of the Martin jetpack, a new autonomous, personal VTOL helicopter concept, the Airvinci, is being developed first as a heavy drone, then as a fully-fledged, human-carrying aerial transport system.

The next generation of US Marine Corp helicopters took to the air recently with the successful maiden flight of Sikorsky's CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter at the company's West Palm Beach, Florida Development Flight Center.