Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and 1950s, engineers experimented with strange designs and unique concepts, many of ...

Asking whether a chopper can lift a bulldozer may sound preposterous at first, because the physics just don't seem possible. How can a helicopter lift a massive bulldozer using just the lift generated ...

The origins of military helicopters go back to the 1940s when the U.S. Army appointed aviator Igor Sikorsky to build a more advanced version of the VS-300, his first model. This new aircraft, known as ...

Marines with 1st Battalion, 12th Marines and Combat Logistics Battalion 8 perform an external lift with a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter to move an M777 Howitzer to its firing position during ...

Airbus Helicopters has unveiled two distinct rotorcraft concepts, a conventional helicopter and a high-speed compound design, for NATO’s NGRC future medium-lift studies.