Helicopters like this AH-46 Apache might have better speed, range, and payload capability using blades with embedded carbon nanotubes. Engineers at the Army Research Laboratory are exploring the use ...
The number of blades a helicopter has is very important because it speaks to what the helicopter was designed to do. For example, adding more blades can significantly improve a helicopter's ...
Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and ...
Speed continues to be a very important aspect of aviation. So, what exactly is this flying thing, and how does it perform compared to an airplane or, even better, a helicopter? What interests us is ...