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The helicopter with... one blade

In the late 1940s and 1950s, the US military wanted an aircraft that could take off like a helicopter but fly fast enough to ...
JEC Composites

DLR tests active rotor blade twisting to reduce helicopter noise and vibration

Improving helicopter performance while reducing noise and vibration is the aim of the international Smart Twisting Active Rotor (STAR) project. Led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter blades broke the sound barrier without disintegrating, and JPL may have unlocked the next leap in alien flight

NASA engineers spun next-gen Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 without shattering them. See how JPL unlocked the future of alien flight.

NASA engineers say new rotor breakthrough could enable supersonic helicopter flight

NASA engineers have pushed experimental Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound, a breakthrough that could eventually ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian ...
Directions Magazine

Uavos Debuts Composite Rotor Blades For Unmanned Helicopters

UAVOS, a leader in UAS and stratospheric programs, reports the completion of a new production run of advanced composite main rotor blades tailored for unmanned helicopter platforms. Composite rotor ...
Aviation Week

Active Twisting Of Rotor Blades May Cut Noise, Vibration—Researchers

A global team of researchers has demonstrated that active twisting of helicopter main rotor blades could help reduce noise and vibration levels. The Smart Twisting Active Rotor (STAR) project, which ...