Even though everyone’s talking about eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing) as heralding a new era of air mobility, it doesn’t mean that conventional rotorcraft are automatically obsolete.

The Farnborough Airshow is in full swing this week over in the UK, and as expected, a flood of news from the aviation industry keeps heading our way. This story's topic: a hybrid-electric helicopter ...

New York City’s gridlocked streets and unreliable subway service can make trips from Manhattan to JFK Airport treacherous, but a West Coast tech company announced a new, pricier solution on Thursday: ...

DONAUWORTH, Germany–Airbus Helicopters is planning to begin flight tests of a hybrid-electric propulsion system on its PioneerLab H145 helicopter demonstrator in 2027. The project will replace the ...

Most of the world still views hydrogen-powered flight as a futuristic someday concept, but a modified Robinson R44 helicopter recently proved that the future is already hovering over Canadian soil.

Everett, Wash, Torrance, CA and Oshkosh, Wis., – magniX, the company powering the electric aviation revolution, and Robinson Helicopter Company (Robinson), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil ...

David Smith is only the third CEO at Robinson Helicopter and the first from outside the family-owned company. Credit: Robinson Robinson Helicopter’s partnership with United Therapeutics to develop a ...

Project aims to demonstrate a fuel efficiency improvement of up to 30% compared to a conventional H145 "The combined 250 kW motor and controller we're designing for PioneerLab are part of our family ...

Austrian startup FlyNow is opening manufacturing facilities in Saudi Arabia, after the announcement that "thousands" of its coaxial twin-rotor helicopters will transport visitors at the upcoming World ...

An “air taxi” company operating completely electric helicopters completed its first test flight Monday between JFK Airport and Midtown — hoping to pave the way for a “Jetsons”-like future for New ...