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Featured In This Issue:
- Letters to Vertiflite
- Washington Report
- Commentary: Not Just Helicopters (html) [pdf]
- Industry Briefs
- CH-53E — Strong ‘til Sundown
- Safety Spotlight: Seahawk TAWS II — Protection to Touchdown
- The Evolution of Airbus Helicopters, Inc. [pdf]
- Elbit: See-Through Suite
- Charging Forward: New eVTOL Concepts Advance (html) [pdf]
- Uber Elevate Summit Outlines eVTOL Flight Plan (html) [pdf]
- Forum 73 Report: Future Aircraft to Solve Old Problems
- AHS International 73rd Annual Awards [gallery] [pdf]
- Cyclocopter: Paddlewheel Propulsion Is Now Vertical and Multi-Modal
- Helicopter Crashworthiness — A History
- Leadership Profile: Prof. Thomas Schnell, University of Iowa
- VFF: Dr. Jing Yen [pdf]
- AHS Update
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Aurora began flying a quarter-scale model in April of its proposed eVTOL solution for the Uber Elevate mission. See page 24. (Photo by Karen Dillon, courtesy of Aurora Flight Sciences)