Helicopter News

By Jen DiMascio Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] effort to demonstrate the an unmanned Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) for the Navy is on cost and schedule to fly for the first […]

By Jen DiMascio By this summer or fall, Boeing [BA] and key subcontractors expect to be able to fly a two-pound imaging radar that sees through bad weather, haze and […]

Australia announced March 5 it will cancel the U.S. Kaman Corp. [KAMN] -produced Seasprite helicopter project, two aircraft short of completing an order for 11. The Rudd Labor government initiated […]

Britain’s BAE Systems recently said it has agreed to sell its California-based Flight Systems business unit to Calspan Corp. for $62.5 million in cash as it focuses its on its […]

By Calvin Biesecker Boeing [BA] said recently it has successfully completed a series of tests using modified ship-based ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to track simulated biological plumes, collect the […]

The White House has decided to move forward on Increment 2 of the next presidential helicopter, VH-71, citing that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] aircraft provides the capability requested by the […]

Rockwell Collins [COL] recently said it has agreed to acquire Athena Technologies, a privately held developer and supplier of flight control and navigation systems used mainly in unmanned aerial vehicles […]

The Army awarded Boeing [BA] $280.5 million for 11 new CH-47 Chinook helicopters, increasing the number of new Chinooks on contract to 59, the company said last month. “This new […]