Frank Piasecki, 88, an engineer who flew the second successful helicopter in America and built the first technically and commercially viable tandem-rotor helicopter, died Feb. 11 at his home in ...

Piasecki outlines path to world-first manned hydrogen helicopter flight Piasecki Aircraft has announced it's putting a HyPoint turbo air-cooled fuel cell and an electric powertrain into an ultralight ...

Frank Piasecki, who died Monday at 88, built the second working helicopter in America in 1943 (following Igor Sikorsky) and then invented the tandem-rotor configuration that came to dominate ...

Early helicopter engineers faced a major challenge: how to lift heavy loads safely. One unusual solution was the tandem rotor design, which used two large rotors instead of one. This eliminated the ...

The hard-working, multi-role Piasecki H-21 helicopter, known as the "Flying Banana," was the brainchild of Frank Piasecki, who founded the P-V Engineering Forum alongside his college buddy, Harold ...

Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor ...

COATESVILLE — Sen. Bob Casey was on hand, Tuesday, to help celebrate the strategic collaboration between helicopter builders Piasecki Aircraft Corp. and Columbia Helicopters. Helicopter modifications ...

Haxel demonstrator will test propulsion technology for Piasecki’s planned hydrogen-electric PA-890. Credit: Piasecki Aircraft Piasecki Aircraft is preparing to modify an ultralight helicopter by ...

Piasecki Aircraft's CEO and president, John Piasecki, provided a detailed PA-890 helicopter program update at recent Vertical Flight Society events. Piasecki Aircraft has unveiled details of the ...