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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: Looking Back from 2020: A Vertical Retrospective of Rotorcraft Safety
- US Military Programs Update: Building Between the Lines
- Transition of Power
- The Lost Treasures of Maitland Bleecker
- Heli-Expo 2020: Aiming Higher
- Urban Air Taxis Underway — UAM at Heli-Expo
- The ((Quiet)) Electric VTOL Revolution
- Transformative Vertical Flight 2020
- The First Electric VTOL Unicorn: Joby Aviation
- Cargo eVTOL Matures
- US Air Force Moves to Boost eVTOL Development
- Urban Air Mobility Steals the Show at CES 2020
- Skyryse Says Autonomy Will Let Helicopter Taxis Compete with Ridesharing
- XTI Aircraft’s TriFan 600 Development Continues
- Electric VTOL News
- TC Highlights: Advanced Vertical Flight
- Leadership Profile: Dr. James Wang
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About our Cover
The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant has been expanding the flight envelope with the wheels up and rotor fairings on. See pg. 14 for more on US military programs. (Sikorsky-Boeing photo by Fred Troilo).
Posted Mar. 5, 2020