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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: A Look at VFS Finances
- Rotorcraft News
- Washington Report
- Is Autorotation Necessary for Powered-Lift Aircraft?
- The V/STOL V: Fine-Tuning the Triangular V/STOL Wheel
- Handling the Hands-Off Hawk
- MOSA: A Change Agent for the Win
- Unmanned Aerospace’s GH-4 VTOL Gyroplane [pdf]
- ARES Milestone Flights
- Global Tiltrotors Advance
- Rise of the Phoenix: Leonardo’s AW249 Combat Helicopter
- Canadian Vertical Lift Update
- Canadian AAM Update: (bonus online-only supplement)
- Airbus International Utility Summit 2024
- Nalwa and Indian Vertical Flight Advance
- China eVTOL Aircraft Round-Up, Part 2
- Education: 18 Teams Enter 5th Annual Drone Competition
- eVTOL Leaders Go Global
- Leadership Moves
- Electric VTOL News
- Electric CTOL/STOL News
- Leadership Profile: Sergei Sikorsky
- Society Update
- AIAA Announces 2025 Fellows
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About Our Cover
Blackcomb Helicopters Airbus AS350B-2 at the top of Blackcomb Mountain, about 5,000 ft (1,500 m) above the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, in September 2014. See pg. 36 for various ways that helicopters are used in Canada. (Photo by Kenneth I. Swartz)
Posted Dec. 18, 2024