China's new Z-21 heavy attack helicopter prototype is emerging as a direct capability competitor to the U.S. AH-64E Apache ...

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The state arms procurement agency has successfully conducted the first flight of a new helicopter prototype aimed at conducting mine countermeasure operations, officials ...

Russian Helicopters has launched flight tests on the first prototype of the multirole Mi-171A2 helicopter. During its first flight its main systems were tested and found to be in excellent working ...

Sept. 30, 2025 marks 50 years since the first YAH-64A prototype took to the skies for the first time. Let’s look at how the Apache has maintained its sharp edge over those five decades. Born from the ...

An aviation company called Joby showed off a prototype of its electric helicopter in Grand Central on Thursday, announcing what it says is a plan to fly New Yorkers from Manhattan to JFK in under ...

Airbus Helicopters has hailed early maturity shown by its new H140 light-twin during separate hot and high flight-test campaigns this summer and is now readying the programme’s second prototype for ...

In the late 1950s, Lockheed initiated development of a rigid-rotor helicopter, designated the CL-475. The rigid rotor concept could improve the helicopter’s performance while reducing mechanical ...

Airbus Helicopters continues to accelerate testing of its new H140 following the light-twin’s launch in March last year, with cold weather trials now under way and a hot-and-high campaign set to kick ...

Airbus Helicopters second H160 prototype has joined the flight test programme, taking off in Marignane. This is the first H160 to fly with the Turbomeca Arrano engines. “After a very busy year 2015 in ...