UAVOS, a leader in UAS and stratospheric programs, reports the completion of a new production run of advanced composite main rotor blades tailored for unmanned helicopter platforms. Composite rotor ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. After completing 72 ...

Pre-treatment-free coatable demonstrator of a rotor blade shell segment protected by the Peel Plas release film. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM Within the joint project OptiBlade, ...

As part of the project, Fraunhofer IFAM not only started up a specially designed new low-pressure plasma plant for web material, but also developed plasma processes which can be used to apply an ...

A firefighting helicopter flies too close to the cliff face. The rotor blades break off, and it plummets to the ground.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam ...

At JEC World 2026, Engel Austria demonstrated how thermoplastic composite rotor blades for drones could be manufactured efficiently, with consistent quality and fully automated in series production.

A modular, high performance textile-based offshore turbine rotor blade that promises to improve on present-day fiberglass models’ energy capture using a lighter, ‘fully sustainable’ –and repairable – ...

Helicopter rotor systems are central to both civil and military applications, yet they continue to face challenges associated with vibration and noise. These issues not only affect passenger comfort ...

(CNN) — After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to ...