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IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Lawrence & Jenney	The Fastest Helicopter on Earth Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record
Fast Company October 2009 Tim McKeough	Sikorsky's X2 Technology Doubles Chopper Speed The typical helicopter today chugs along at a respectable 150 miles per hour. With its aptly named X2 Technology, chopper maker Sikorsky hopes to have new helicopters flying nearly twice as fast.
Popular Mechanics November 2009 Logan Ward	10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter Innovation promises a brighter future. Here is a look at 10 of this year's brilliant innovators and their inventions.
National Defense November 2010 Eric Beidel	Helicopter Could Become Military's Fastest The manufacturer of the Army's Black Hawk helicopters now may have built the world's fastest whirlybird.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	European Helicopters Look to Take Off in U.S. Military Market At a helicopter exposition in Orlando last month, CEOs of European manufacturers made it clear: They are both partners and competitors of their U.S. counterparts.
National Defense July 2014 Valerie Insinna	Tiltrotor Sales Unlikely to Take Off, Industry Veteran Says Sergei Sikorsky is skeptical that tiltrotor aircraft will take the place of conventional helicopters.
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Jeff Wise	High-Speed Helicopter Revolution: Sikorsky's Dual-Rotor Design Sikorsky Aircraft is testing a chopper that uses two sets of blades that spin in opposite directions as part of a suite of advances that should achieve nearly twice the speed of a conventional helicopter.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 David Schneider	Helicopters Go Electric Electric flight takes on the final frontier
National Defense July 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Suppliers Must Modernize, Says Defense Industrial Policy Chief The Defense Department predicts that military helicopter suppliers will recover from the current slump in aircraft production if they invest in new manufacturing technologies.
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2009 Joe Hasler	X2 Helicopter Gurus Pay Homage to Engineering Inspirations The team that designed the world's fastest helicopter explain how they got into the biz.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Air Force Chopper Pilot Training Splits From Army After more than three decades of learning the ropes alongside Army pilots at the flight school in Fort Rucker, Ala., the Air Force has chosen its own training program for novice helicopter aviators.
National Defense December 2015 Allyson Versprille	Testing for Autonomous Helicopter Moving Forward Sikorsky will demonstrate the first flight of an autonomous UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter by the fourth quarter of 2016, said company executives.
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Taking Off Upgrades and a surge of new U.S. military orders should make the next 10 years a busy decade for rotorcraft manufacturers, according to a recent study by Forecast International Inc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems supplies transducers for military helicopter avionics Curtiss-Wright will provide multi-channel linear variable displacement transducers for the helicopter avionics fly-by-wire systems controlling the main rotor and tail rotor on the upgraded Sikorsky UH-60M and CH-53K military helicopters.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	U.S. Helicopter Suppliers Fear Losing Innovation War The military helicopter business is booming, but the industry mostly is making money fixing up and maintaining the Army's aging fleet. Hardly any Pentagon contracts these days pursue new aircraft designs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006	BAE Systems to Develop Engine-Control Unit for Black Hawk Helicopters GE-Aviation has selected BAE Systems to develop and manufacture an electronic engine control unit (EECU) for the T700-701D rotorcraft engine.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 John McHale	Boeing manned/unmanned light helicopter uses latest digital technology The A/MH-6X Little Bird is said to offer exciting new possibilities for an already outstanding platform. The most significant modifications are to the cockpit avionics and electrical systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007	LaBarge to provide cockpit wiring harnesses for Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter avionics The LaBarge wiring harnesses are for cockpits of the UH-60M and HH-60L military medical evacuation models of the Black Hawk.
National Defense August 2007 Frank Colucci	'Sandblaster' Gives Helicopter Pilots Hope for Safer Landings As early as this fall, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be testing a new landing system for military helicopters that promises safer flying in brownouts.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	Eaton to Supply CH-53K Helicopter Cockpit Control Panels, Dimming Controllers Eaton personnel will provide the lighted control-panel support hardware for five helicopter ship sets, as well as system development test sets, during the development of the military heavy-lift helicopter.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller	Lockheed Martin set to build new presidential helicopter The long-awaited competition to build the next generation of U.S. presidential helicopters came to a close Jan. 29 when U.S. Navy officials awarded a $1.7 billion contract to build the VXX helicopter to Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y.
National Defense August 2014 Eric Braganca	Affordable Options Available to Upgrade Military Helicopters While many portions of the defense budget are shrinking, the portion allocated to purchasing helicopters is falling through the floor over the next few years.
National Defense January 2014 Valerie Insinna	Decline of U.S. Helicopter Procurement on the Horizon After a decade-long period of surging sales and rapid expansion, the military helicopter buying boom is coming to an end.
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Future Vertical Lift Takes Step Forward Army officials have been talking for almost a decade about new vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to replace its aging fleets of helicopters.
National Defense January 2005 Frank Colucci	Sensors Aboard Helicopters Can Help Predict Parts Failures Health-and-usage monitoring systems (HUMS) now are in development for the Army's new UH-60M Black Hawk and Block III AH-64D Apache helicopters. HUMS help track the wear and tear of aircraft components.
National Defense October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Future Vertical Lift Could Be Shot in the Arm for Industry The Army's forthcoming future vertical lift program -- which would replace thousands of aging helicopters -- will rejuvenate the United States' stagnant military helicopter market, experts and executives said.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Scout Helicopter Competitors to Army: It's Time for a Flyoff Helicopter manufacturers have flexed their muscles and weighed in for a chance to replace the Army's aging scout helicopter fleet.
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons	Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Sikorsky Designs Helicopters with SGI Servers Engineers will use the SGI computers to analyze digital prototypes in computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. Sikorsky deployed the SGI solutions to support computer-aided engineering design and analyses of current and future aircraft.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Aircraft Fleet Modernization Gains Momentum During the next six years, the Army will procure 1,000 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In addition, the service plans to restore 1,655 Black Hawks, Chinooks, and Apaches as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John McHale	Boeing AH-6i helicopter flying with Apache avionics Boeing announced that the AH-6i light-attack/reconnaissance helicopter made its first flight in September with a new avionics system that leverages software from the Apache Longbow helicopter.
National Defense September 2005 Frank Colucci	Safety Upgrades Could Delay New Presidential Helicopter The helicopter chosen to carry the nation's chief executive meets civil aviation safety requirements, but it will require modifications to satisfy more stringent military specifications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale	Army helicopter upgrades on pace after cancellation of new rotorcraft program Upgrades planned for the UH-60M Black Hawk and Kiowa Warrior -- the armed version of the OH-58D helicopter.
BusinessWeek February 14, 2005 Diane Brady	Marine One, Sikorsky Zero Losing the Presidential chopper contract to Lockheed Martin is a blow -- and not the only one for Sikorsky Aircraft and its parent company, United Technologies Corp.
National Defense October 2011 Eric Beidel	New Aircraft Concept Promises More Speed, Endurance An engineer has designed a vertical take-off and landing aircraft that may be able to fly faster and farther than today's helicopters.
Science News May 6, 2006	Science Safari: Aircraft Photos The Dryden Flight Research Center's Web site contains images of many of the research and experimental aircraft flown at the test facility, from the 1940s to today..
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Schoolhouse Tries to Fill `Insatiable Demand' for Aviators Fort Rucker starts a class of 50 students every two weeks -- the Army's requirement for the last four years and likely to remain so in the near future.
National Defense November 2004 Harold Kennedy	Race Is on to Replace Air Force Search and Rescue Helicopter Maneuvering already has begun in a competition for a lucrative contract for a new Air Force "personnel recovery vehicle," built to rescue downed aircrews and others who find themselves isolated on the battlefield.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Industry Yearns for Scout Helicopter Competition The Army has all but canceled its armed aerial scout helicopter competition to replace the Kiowa Warrior, but some rotorcraft manufacturers are holding out hope that the service will decide to purchase a new aircraft.
National Defense April 2009 Matthew Rusling	Army Helicopters Brace For Afghanistan Buildup The upcoming buildup of U.S. forces in Afghanistan will put additional pressure on the Army's already overstretched helicopter fleet, officials said.
National Defense April 2010 Wright & Erwin	New Attitudes about UAVs Shape Army's Scout Helicopter Program The Army has tried unsuccessfully for decades to build a new scout helicopter to replace the aging Kiowa Warrior. After canceling two multibillion-dollar helicopter programs, the Army has decided that a conventional rotorcraft is no longer the answer.
National Defense May 2006 Robert H. Williams	`Active Interceptor' Will Lighten Helo Pilots' Workload Army Black Hawk helicopters will be equipped with an active pilot inceptor system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Retiring Kiowas Will Find Home in Law Enforcement The Army's OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter will see an active retirement when it is replaced by a future armed reconnaissance helicopter. After the war, they could end up in the hands of homeland security agencies.
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson	Urban Conflicts Shape New Recon Helicopter Col. Mark Hayes and Lt. Col. Neil Thurgood are brimming with confidence while facing a Herculean task. Their mission is to develop and deploy a new, armed reconnaissance helicopter within four years.
National Defense October 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Fleet Features Mix of New, Refurbished Aircraft As a result of the heavy use of helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army will need more than 3,000 new or remanufactured attack, utility, cargo and special operations helicopters by 2020. Meanwhile, orders for UH-60 from 10 other countries are expected in 2005.