The General Rotor Model System test stand that we were using was built in the 1970’s and it was scaled to meet the requirements of full-scale concepts of the day, which used 1970’s engine ...

The Helicopter Department of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR-Institute of Flight Systems in Braunschweig is home to the Rotor Test Stand, also known as ...

If this lumpy, manic-sounding 6-rotor monster sounds familiar, you might have seen it before. It's Pulse Performance Engineering's famous "6B" engine that they ended up stuffing into an RX-4 in ...

The topic of rotor test facilities encompasses the design, development and operation of rotating test stands. These facilitate experiments that take into account the rotational influence of components ...

The test stand used during the experiment had the rotor shaft oriented horizontally to allow researchers to make acoustic measurements. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL ...

Bell just released a video showing how its folding rotor design works on a high-speed sled in advance of integrating it on a DARPA X-plane. DARPA’s SPRINT (Speed and Runway Independent ...

We’re not entirely sure what to call this one. It’s got the usual trappings of a drone, but with only a single rotor it clearly can’t be called by any of the standard multicopter … ...

At 1310g (2.89 lbs), our RSX4 MTB steel test crankset is also not only over a full pound heavier than a current-generation XTR crankset, but with a suggested retail price of US$729, it's also ...

We look forward to conducting the rotor blade test we need for our V236-15.0 MW™ prototype with a rotor diameter of 236 meters together with Fraunhofer IWES, with the aim of being able to start ...

LYON, France—Safran this week inaugurated a ground testbed for a full-scale counter-rotating open-rotor (CROR) engine in Istres in southeast France, marking key progress in the EU-funded ...

AgustaWestland's new transmission test stand at its U.S. facility in Philadelphia can be used for testing intermediate and tail rotor gear boxes.

Safran this week inaugurated a ground testbed for a full-scale counter-rotating open-rotor engine in Istres in ... Safran now has an 864,000-sq.-ft. test stand, the only one of its kind ...