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The July/August 2023 issue of the Vertiflite magazine is online!
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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: Meet the Team — A Look at Our VFS Staff
- VFS Raises VLRCOE Profile to Congress
- Journal Increases Speed and Features
- Coming to Terms: Runway Independence
- Rotorcraft News
- Washington Report
- VTOL Drones in Ukraine
- VTOL One-Way Attack Drones Take Off
- Moog: Growing with New Strengths [pdf]
- Piasecki Relaunches the Heliplex [photos]
- Keystone Helicopters and the Heliplex
- eVTOL Insights Highlights eVTOL CTOs
- Forum 79: Civil and Military Air Mobility Innovations
- Forum 79 Awards Ceremony
- VFS Tours Sikorsky Development Flight Center
- Automating the AAM Airspace
- The X-Files: Lockheed CL-1201 VTOL Flying Wing
- Turbulence: The Unseen Threat to Vertical Flight
- eVTOL Leaders Continue Steps to Production and Certification
- Electric VTOL News
- Electric CTOL/STOL News
- Book Review: Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying
- Leadership Profile: Antonio Visingardi, CIRA
- Awards: University of Maryland’s Chopra Honored
- Educational Initiatives: eVTOL Drone Competition [related press release]
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About Our Cover
Piasecki Aircraft Corp. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Heliplex in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. There, it will become a center for helicopter developments and production, and support the development of Piasecki’s PA-890 hydrogen-powered, winged-compound helicopter. (Piasecki Illustration for Vertiflite.)
Posted June 23, 2023; updated July 18, 2023