Building on the Huey’s legacy, Bell developed the AH-1 Cobra and its successors, creating the world’s first dedicated attack ...

Fifty years after its first flight, the AH-64 Apache remains the go-to attack helicopter for militaries around the world The Apache entered U.S. Army service in the mid-1980s as a wrecking ball. It ...

History has shown that wars are capable of evolving faster than aircraft design cycles. Platforms optimized for nuclear ...

The idea of the helicopter dates back to the Renaissance—but the contraptions could not be built until the development of modern aerospace engineering during the interwar period. Few platforms in ...