The U.S. Army's 'New Heliopter'

Credit: Credit: Bell Helicopter Bell Unveils Third-Gen Tiltrotor Concept -- Aviation Week Bell Helicopter says it has taken lessons learned ...

Darpa Wants A Better Helicopter

Image : Some of Darpa’s imagined designs for its new VTOL X-Plane program. Image: Darpa Darpa Wants to Rethink the Helicopter to Make It Go ...

New U.S. Army Chopper Fleet 20 Years Away

U.S. soldiers look over their CH-47 Chinook before an aircraft turnover mission on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Dec. 1, 2009. The soldiers are as...

Are Chinook Helicopters Safe?

Soldiers with the 101st Division Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division watch as two Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back...

Reducing Helicopter Vulnerability To Low-Tech Weapons

U.S. soldiers look over their CH-47 Chinook before an aircraft turnover mission on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Dec. 1, 2009. The soldiers are as...

New Generation Of Helicopters At The Paris Air Show

Helicopter Manufacturers Develop a Need for Speed -- Wall Street Journal PARIS—Helicopters can hover, hop and reverse midair. Now they'r...

Top Secret Helicopter Revealed In Osama Bin Laden Raid

Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts -- ABC News Before an elite team of U.S. Navy SEALs executed...

The U.S. Army's Next, Superfast Helicopter?

Sikorsky's Superfast Helicopter To Be Readied For Military Use -- Popular Mechanics With its sights on military contracts, Sikorsky will...

A New Generation Of Helicopters Are Smashing Speed Records

Faster Helicopters More Rotors, More Speed -- The Economist A new type of helicopter breaks speed records. THE ability of a helicopter to ho...

Video: A Silent Rotor Blade Paves The Way For Super-Stealth Choppers

From Popular Science: For all the government conspiracy militia nuts out there, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news...

DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday

Smart Blade: Smart blades for better copters. U.S. Air Force From Popular Science: Future whirlybirds may change their rotor blades to sui...