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Featured In This Issue:
- Letters to Vertiflite
- Commentary: Vertical Flight Saves Lives (html) (pdf)
- Washington Report
- Industry Briefs
- VFF Scholar Spotlight: Henry Zhongqi Jia (html) (pdf)
- Ready, Set, GoFly! (html) (pdf)
- Streamlining of FAA Air Safety Offices Continues
- US Government Research Targets Helicopter Noise (pdf)
- Getting Smart for FVL (pdf)
- Clean Sky 2 Update, Part 2: The Leonardo Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor
- Electric VTOL News (html)
- Back to Kitty Hawk — Exploring the Secrets of the Kitty Hawk Flyer (html)
- AHS Name Survey Results (html)
- AHS Corporate Member Directory
- AHS Membership News
- Leadership Profile: Dr. Colin Theodore, NASA
- AHS Update
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About our Cover
The Bell Helicopter V-280 Valor is preparing to begin flying as part of the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstration. (Bell Helicopter photo, Aug. 30, 2017, modified for the cover.)