Tiltrotor technology has limited civilian use, but the military has long used similar aircraft. Downtown-to-downtown service is one of the potential uses for the aircraft type. Vertical flight has ...
The modern world offers many ways for civilians to travel in the sky. One can board an airplane or a helicopter, can climb inside the nacelle of a hot-air balloon, or can even dangle precariously ...
Leonardo has completed the first flight of its next-generation tiltrotor, developed with the support of the EU’s Clean ...
Leonardo Helicopters has finally flown the Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR) a technology demonstrator developed as ...
The first Leonardo AW609 tiltrotor production aircraft made its maiden flight on 13 October 2022 which included an initial inflight evaluation of systems and general handling and it has now completed ...
The new Helicopter Training Academy will provide training for both pilots and maintenance crews on the AW119, AW169, AW139 models and, in a near future, the new AW609 tiltrotor. Leonardo announced ...
ROME, Aug. 12 (UPI) --Leonardo-Finmeccanica has resumed flight tests of its AW609 tilt-rotor aircraft, an effort that was halted after a fatal prototype crash in 2015. The AW609 prototype touched down ...
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Leonardo’s Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor Demonstrator Makes First Flight in Italy
The NGCTR demonstrator is designed to mature key novel technologies that could support the development of a larger civil tiltrotor with lower emissions.
Leonardo plans to finish its first production example of the AW609 tiltrotor by the end of 2021. The initial commercial rotorcraft is in final assembly at the manufacturer’s Philadelphia facility, the ...
PHILADELPHIA—Assembly of the first production AW609 civil tiltrotor has begun at Leonardo Helicopters’ plant here, but certification could slip into 2020. William Sunick, head of tiltrotor marketing, ...
Leonardo's AW609 can take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. Tiltrotor technology has limited civilian use, but the military has long used similar aircraft. Downtown-to-downtown ...
Tiltrotor technology has limited civilian use, but the military has long used similar aircraft. Downtown-to-downtown service is one of the potential uses for the aircraft type. Vertical flight has ...
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