Engineers at the Army Research Laboratory are exploring the use of carbon nanotubes to make helicopter blades perform better. Nanotubes have been shown to dissipate energy when embedded in small ...

SANFORD — Jeff Small owes his company, in a way, to having long hair years ago. His Advance Composite Structures at Sanford’s airport, specializing in the esoteric craft of refurbishing helicopter ...

Along with serving as a warning system, though, the setup could also be used simply to study the behaviour of rotor blades, helping in the design of longer-lasting, better-performing models. Although ...

MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. The Zhukovsky Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and the Mil Design Bureau have designed new rotor blades that make it possible to boost the speed of existing ...

Wind turbines are being reinvented left, right, and center. A Swedish company is developing a floating wind turbine system made up of 126 small turbines spinning in unison. An American designer has ...

The blade landed some 50 feet (15 meters) from the helicopter on Jan. 18. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The blade was broken — ...