Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United ...

In fact, the X2 was not a standard helicopter, but a compound helicopter, with two coaxial counter-rotating main rotors and a prop rotor in the tail. This solution exploited the Advancing Blade ...

Hover over the red squares to read more about the UH-60 Black Hawk heliocopter and the downed helicopter used in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound (right). Photos of the wreckage of one of ...

However, Airbus Helicopters is also developing a Racer-based concept should the NGRC nations instead decide that their priorities are speed and range. A compound architecture also brings other ...

In fact, the X2 was not a standard helicopter, but a compound helicopter, with two coaxial counter-rotating main rotors and a prop rotor in the tail. This solution exploited the Advancing Blade ...