The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Data ...

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 ...

The project is part of the Biodiversity Project, funded by the Xunta de Galicia within the framework of the Civil UAVs Initiative. UAVOS has been selected by Avincis, a leading European company ...

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 ...

NASA engineers have pushed experimental Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound, a breakthrough that could eventually allow future aircraft to carry heavier scientific payloads and fly farther ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their next-generation Mars helicopter rotors can punch past the speed of sound and ...

German researchers believe the addition of active twisting technology to helicopter main rotor blades can significantly improve performance while also cutting noise and vibration levels. German ...

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 ...