A strange helicopter has been making test flights in the south of France. Built by French company Airbus Helicopters, it looks a bit like what would happen if a regular helicopter and an airplane ...

Emergency workers and the obscenely rich love helicopters, and for good reason. Unlike airplanes, whirlybirds can take off and land almost anywhere, making them just the thing for tight spots and ...

Russia has created a highly modified variant of its venerable Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter dubbed the "Prospective Speedy Helicopter" Demonstrator, or Demonstrator PSV. This testbed aircraft aims to ...

Helicopters aren't the fastest things flying through the air, but they aren't all lumbering beasts either. While they're not supersonic like some jet airplanes, many military helicopters fly through ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has tested a wind tunnel model of a high-speed compound helicopter designed to cruise at 500 mph (270 kt.). By enabling flight at twice the speed of ...

Since its groundbreaking invention in 1939, the helicopter has steadily transformed the world of transport, though it took a decade or two to really reach its potential. The Korean War served as the ...

Japanese researchers are studying a new design for a high-speed compound helicopter that could reach speeds of up to 270kt (500km/h). The concept, being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...