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The Vertical Flight Society presents the Paper of the Month!

The May Paper of the Month is now available – free for members: "The 31st Alexander Nikolsky Honorary Lecture: Rotorcraft Airloads Measurements – Extraordinary Costs, Extraordinary Benefits," by William G. Bousman, US Army Emeritus Scientist, who recently passed away.

Download this 2011 Nikolsky Award-winning paper today!

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Welcome to the Vertical Flight Library & Online Store!
Current product count in the Library: 16905 items, with 16547 technical papers! We are constantly adding new items to the store, so check back often.

The Vertical Flight Library includes downloadable papers from nearly all Forum Proceedings from 1943 to today, as well as papers from more than 170 Technical Meetings and 70+ years of Vertiflite magazine! Note: the Journal of the AHS is hosted separately — please go to www.vtol.org/journal.

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The Vertical Flight Society is the global resource for information on vertical flight technology.

NEW: Check out the latest addition to the Vertical Flight Library!

Vertiflite, May/June 2025,

  • 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
  • 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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(Added to the VFS Library on Apr 25, 2025).

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