Airbus Helicopters is potentially studying a novel high-speed rotorcraft concept that combines a hybrid-electric single-bladed tandem rotor configuration with a tail-mounted pusher propeller and wings ...

Quest Helicopters has unveiled the first member of a new family of innovative new rotorcraft at the Dubai Airshow. Quest Helicopters is headquartered in Dubai and is a subsidiary of Quest Investments.

Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor ...

The Boeing H-47 Chinook is one of the oldest aerial workhorses of the American military. It was introduced in 1962 as one of the very few tandem rotor helicopters ever made and has been so successful ...

Laflamme Aéro has developed a tandem-rotor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that the company hopes will be as cheap as the most affordable manned rotary-wing aircraft. David Laflamme, company ...

Frank Piasecki, who died Monday at 88, built the second working helicopter in America in 1943 (following Igor Sikorsky) and then invented the tandem-rotor configuration that came to dominate ...

Inside an incredible 134-year-old building in Manchester, England, I found something I didn't expect: an Avro Shackleton patrol aircraft. And a massive tandem-rotor Bristol Belvedere helicopter. It's ...

X2 technology could let a helicopter "cruise comfortably" at 250 knots, much faster than current production models, the company says. But when will it actually fly? Jon Skillings is an editorial ...