Helicopter News

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] have wrapped up the first of three planned government-sponsored Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) firings at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to […]

Boeing [BA] said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aeronautics Ltd. to market the DA42 Dominator unmanned aircraft system. at the Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom. “The […]

Boeing [BA] and its subsidiary Insitu Inc. recently said they successfully demonstrated a high-performance Narrowband Relay communications system aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in June. The relay was […]

AAI Corp. [TXT] said this week that that Italy’s Ministry of Defense (MoD)–Directorate of General Aeronautical Armament has selected AAI’s Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS) for the Italian […]

The Pentagon’s top arms buyer said at the Farnborough Air Show that the RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone program is suffering from troubling cost growth, as prime contractor Northrop Grumman […]

Sikorsky [UTX] said the The first flight of its Autonomous Formation Flying (AFF) system was carried out on June 4 by Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft. […]

Sikorsky [UTX] said at the Farnborough Airshow its German Multi-Role Helicopter Team (GMRHT), consisting of several partnership agreements will work together to introduce the Cyclone multi-role helicopter into Germany. The […]

Work is under way at Bell Helicopter [TXT] on an Army contract for the conversion of an OH-58A cabin into a D-model cabin. In April 2009, the Army exercised a […]

Bell Helicopter [TXT] said it continues to ramp up its production of H-1 helicopters after receiving a $546 million contract in June for the manufacture and delivery of Lot 7 […]