The horizontal stab was in fact moved forward along the tailboom because it wasn’t powerful enough for the helicopter outside the downwash. And importantly ... and we were off the ground, holding a ...

Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these ...

A helicopter at a slow speed such as during hover or landing is generating high velocity downwash. As the two Black Hawks flared to land, the immense rotor downwash quickly created a white out.<\/ ...

The National Police Air Service of England and Wales notes that "Each helicopter has a maximum endurance of approx two hours," in terms of staying in the air overall, and that "hovering on a hot ...

New York Helicopter Charter, the company which operated the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday killing six people, was also involved in dangerous incidents in ...

Dozens have died in accidents since helicopters were allowed in the city in 1949. Residents have complained for nearly as long, but reforms rarely stick. By Stefanos Chen The helicopter has been a ...

On April 10, a helicopter carrying six people, including the pilot, on a sightseeing tour crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, killing those on board. As the Associated Press reported ...

A helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront Thursday, killing six people in the latest high-profile aviation ...

Yet hovering an aeroplane is fantastically harder than getting ... Older downwash models tended to model helicopter downwash as a steady 'doughnut' whereas in fact it is in pulsing 'clumps' of higher ...

In addition, the study – Protecting the Future: Trials and Simulation of Downwash and Outwash for Helicopters and Powered ... were taken with the heavy-twin hovering at heights of 65ft and ...

We later did a hover autorotation ... a rotary-wing flying condition in which a helicopter descends in its own main rotor downwash. At these slow speeds, crosshatching appears on the vertical ...

Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people, the ...