The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of batteries used In Radio-Controlled Helicopter Kits because the rechargeable battery can overheat and catch fire while charging, ...

Airbus Helicopters has applied for a patent covering a proposed emergency battery system for single-engined rotorcraft. Designed to maintain rotor power in the event of an engine failure, the system ...

Everett, Wash, Torrance, CA and Oshkosh, Wis., – magniX, the company powering the electric aviation revolution, and Robinson Helicopter Company (Robinson), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil ...

Sure, your Nissan Leaf might let you jet around town with nary a drop of fuel, but can it lift off straight into the skies above to give you a bird's-eye view of your surroundings? Of course not. But ...

Instead of picking up scraps of wrapping paper, a Citrus Heights family spent part of Christmas morning extinguishing a gift that came from under the tree.Joey Thompson, 10, plugged his new ...

Airbus Helicopters plans to fly in 2020 a light-single testbed fitted with a battery-driven electric back-up system to provide emergency power in the event of main engine failure. To be carried out in ...

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Airwolf expects FAA STC approval and kits by the end of first-quarter 2020 to install True Blue Power Li-ion batteries on 10 helicopter models. New STCs by Airwolf Aerospace are expected to put True ...

I wasn’t sure entirely what I expected an electric helicopter to look like, but what I found waiting for me at New York’s Flatiron Plaza wasn’t it. It’s not because it didn’t look like a helicopter; ...