
Using modern, high-fidelity computer modeling and simulation software, Army engineers are solving the issues that crashed earlier attempts to develop leap-ahead helicopter technologies, which service officials say should shave time, risk and cost from the effort to field a revolutionary rotorcraft.The Army has not had a successful new-start rotorcraft development program in almost half a century, Dan Bailey, the Army’s director of Future Vertical Lift, said Aug. 23.“When you think about it, it’s been decades since we’ve had … next-generation…