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Featured In This Issue:
- Letters to Vertiflite
- Commentary: Bringing the Vertical Flight Community Together
- VFF Scholar Spotlight: Byron Patterson
- Industry Briefs
- Advanced VTOL Demonstrators Accelerate Full Tilt: Valor, Vahana and Joby
- Aviation Comes to the Consumer at CES 2018
- Vertically Speaking: FAA Rotorcraft Safety Continuum on Track [pdf]
- Annual US Military Programs Update: Keeping Busy ‘til FVL
- Integrating the Armed Black Hawk
- Mountain Rotors: British Columbia‘s History of Innovation
- Evolution of a Swiss Masterpiece:
The Marenco Swisshelicopter SKYe SH09 Becomes the Kopter SH09 - XTI Aircraft Refines its TriFan 600 VTOL BizJet (hmtl) [pdf]
- AHS Transformative Vertical Flight Meeting: The eVTOL is in the Details
- Electric VTOL News: CityAirbus, Vimana, AirspaceX, and Zee Aero
- Book Review: “The Merlin EH(AW) 101: From Design to Front Line”
- Leadership Profile: Keith Flail, Bell Helicopter
- AHS Update
About our Cover
A3 by Airbus conducted the first unmanned flight of its Vahana electric VTOL demonstrator on Jan. 31. See page 12 for details. (A3 by Airbus photo by Stefan Silvers)