Helicopters – Page 160
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DARPA pulls plug on X-50 stopped-rotor concept
Loss of second Dragonfly demonstrator due to lack of low-speed control, says agency
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NewsHigh oil price fuels demand for offshore helicopter workers
Rising oil prices may be hitting the airlines hard, but increased exploration and drilling mean that more helicopter pilots and engineers are needed to service the oil industry
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NewsFatal August 2005 Copterline S-76C+ crash controversy deepens as Sikorsky rejects NTSB verdict of main rotor servo failure
Controversy over the cause of the fatal accident involving a Copterline Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter in August 2005 has deepened following Estonian accident investigators' confirmation of US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) findings that the probable cause was failure of a main rotor servo.
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Flying the line
The world has few scheduled helicopter services - and their operators are mostly long established. How do they survive and is there room for expansion?
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FAA to toughen helicopter rules
US agency raises the bar for certification of new rotorcraft types to reflect advances in handling performance
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NewsLow hovering fruit: Why the FAA and EASA are right to revise helicopter safety standards
It should not be surprising that, after 20 years of certificating helicopters to a given set of standards, the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency have agreed the certification bar should be raised for new-build rotorcraft.