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The May/June 2025 issue of Vertiflite magazine is online!
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Featured In This Issue:
- Commentary: Expanding the Reach of VFS Publications: Celebrating Our Community and Growing Our Impact
- Rotorcraft News
- Washington Report
- Leadership Moves
- Navigating Change in the DoD: Leveraging MOSA for Effective Acquisition Reform [PDF]
- Global Rotorcraft Market Outlook: 2025–2029
- Robinson Helicopter — Onward and Upward
- Verticon Launch Party
- World’s First Piloted Hydrogen VTOL Lifts Off in Quebec
- Sikorsky Innovations: Adding Up to Something Big
- VTOL in Space: Commercial Lunar Landers
- Design-Build-Vertical Flight 2025: Fifth Annual DBVF Competition Showcases Student Innovation in Wildfire Response
- Harmony Advances Quiet Propeller Technology
- Horizon Bets on Extended Range with Hybrid Cavorite X7
- Chinese eVTOL Aircraft Directory, Part 1
- eVTOL Leaders Continue
- Electric VTOL News
- Electric CTOL/STOL News
- Leadership Profile: Prof. James Baeder
- VFS UK Chapter’s Fifth Annual Meeting
- VFS SoCal Chapter and VAI Hold Firefighting Summit
- Educational Initiatives
- Society Update
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About Our Cover
The Robinson Helicopter Company unveiled its single-engine, 10-seat R88 model in March. See pg. 14. (Robinson graphic)
Posted April 25, 2025