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The May/June 2023 issue of the Vertiflite magazine is online!
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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: The Forum for Advancing Vertical Flight
- VFS Board Selects Angelo Collins as New Executive Director
- Get to Know Your New Executive Director
- Coming to Terms: Research is Not Development
- Rotorcraft News
- Washington Report
- Aero India Highlights Indigenous Helicopter Progress
- The State of the Civil Helicopter Industry: Heli-Expo 2023
- The World Rotorcraft Market 2023-2032
- Lost in the Noise: eVTOL Acoustics
- Smart Safety Supervisor
- US Army Launches FTUAS Increment 2
- DARPA SPRINTs Toward High-Speed VTOL
- Ingenuity and Beyond
- H2-Aero Symposium: Zero Emissions Aircraft Take Flight
- Opening the Book on HUMS Data
- The X-Files: Rolls-Royce VTOL Flying Wing
- eVTOL Leaders Continue Advancements
- VFS Holds Successful Handling Qualities Technical Meeting
- Electric VTOL News
- Electric CTOL/STOL News
- Book Review: Test Pilot: An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft
- Leadership Moves
- Leadership Profile: Steven Schmidt, Sikorsky
- Awards: University of Maryland’s Chopra Honored
- Educational Initiatives: DiversiFlite Scholars
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About Our Cover
Joby is testing the propeller of its S4 eVTOL air taxi design in the US Air Force's National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) at NASA's Ames Research Center, measuring performance, loads and acoustics. See page 40 for the latest efforts to understand and minimize eVTOL noise. (Joby photo by Eric Adams.)
Posted April 24, 2023