The company envisions a variety of uses for the aircraft including firefighting, utlility, cargo delivery, and medevac ...

Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor ...

Historical references to spinning flying machines go back hundreds of years, with evidence like the 12th-century Chinese twirling kite and Leonardo da Vinci's bizarre airscrew contraption of 1483.

The global heavy-lift drone sector recently marked a critical advance with the successful inaugural flight of the T1400 tandem unmanned helicopter. Developed and manufactured by Harbin United Aircraft ...

Airbus Helicopters is potentially studying a novel high-speed rotorcraft concept that combines a hybrid-electric single-bladed tandem rotor configuration with a tail-mounted pusher propeller and wings ...

China’s United Aircraft Group on Oct. 30 conducted the first flight of its new T1400 Boying large, uncrewed tandem-rotor helicopter. The aircraft is designed to provide heavy-lift capabilities for ...

Frank Piasecki, 88, an engineer who flew the second successful helicopter in America and built the first technically and commercially viable tandem-rotor helicopter, died Feb. 11 at his home in ...