The Aviationist

An Overview of the U.S. Army’s New Training Helicopter Competition

Bell, M1 and Lockheed Martin have been selected for the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Flight School Next competition. Let’s ...
IEEE

Adaptive Control Allocation for A New Bi-Copter With Center of Gravity Uncertainty

Abstract: A pair of vectored thrusts grants bi-copters greater power efficiency than quadrotors but also makes them more susceptible to the uncertain center of gravity, which alters the steady state ...
CBS News

U.S. government admits fault in midair collision that killed 67 people near D.C. airport

The U.S. government admitted in a court filing Wednesday that it was partially at fault in a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that ...
IEEE

Adversarial Frequency Component Reconstruction Constraint for Helicopter Vibration Signal Anomaly Detection: An Unsupervised Dual-Domain Approach

Abstract: Vibration signal anomaly detection plays a vital role in predictive maintenance and fault diagnosis of helicopters. While deep learning-driven approaches that combine both time- and ...
CNN

US government admits Army and air traffic controller failures in deadly midair collision near DC

The US government now admits failures by the pilots of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a controller in the Reagan National Airport tower during the January 29 midair collision over the Potomac River ...