The fundamental design principles behind rotary-wing aircraft date back to the Renaissance, with some of the earliest-known designs belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. Naturally, technology has ...

How do helicopters fly? They face the same forces that planes do, but they have a special feature to help them hover and go where no plane can. Find out more. Science Trek is available to stream on ...

Well, it's not! It's actually a reality thanks to the R550X, the world's first full-size autonomous helicopter for civilian use. The R550X is a revolutionary helicopter from Rotor Technologies. It is ...

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...