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Conventional helicopters have a built-in speed limit, imposed by the physical limitations of their top-rotor lift systems. This fascinating Airbus project has found a way to break through that speed limit, and it’s already done it in flight testing.Con… Continue reading High-speed helicopter breaks through single top rotor speed record
Austrian startup FlyNow is opening manufacturing facilities in Saudi Arabia, after the announcement that “thousands” of its coaxial twin-rotor helicopters will transport visitors at the upcoming World Expo in Riyadh.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, … Continue reading “Thousands” of electric heli-pods ordered for upcoming World Expo
Most of us would equate commercial airline travel with fixed-wing aircraft, but civilian transport by helicopter, especially in large and sparsely populated regions, is common enough. It was once even …read more Continue reading A Look Back at the USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner
When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society, a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024
Helicopters are perhaps at their coolest when they’re being used as flying cranes — from a long dangling cable, they can carry everything from cars, to crates, to giant hanging …read more Continue reading Peeking Underground With Giant Flying Antennas
These days, you can get a fully remote-control helicopter that you can fly around your house for about $30. Maybe less. Back in the day, kids had to make do …read more Continue reading 3D Print a Drill-Powered Helicopter Toy Because It’s Simply Fun
NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Dragonfly rotorcraft given green light for mission to Titan
So it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024
Things may not have gone as planned last week for the flying cellphone on Mars, but just because Ingenuity‘s flying career is over doesn’t mean there’s no more work to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024
Armed with a 300-horsepower, supercharged engine from Kawasaki’s fearsome H2R hyperbike, the K-Racer X1 unmanned helicopter is an absolute beast of a cargo drone, the size of a small car. Watch it lifting a national-record weight in this new video.Cont… Continue reading Kawasaki’s supercharged 1,000cc Ninja-copter drone lifts 440 pounds