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Its AHS Forum is the largest vertical flight technical conference in the world, with over 1200 attendees. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Formed in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, it publishes a general audience vertical flight technology magazine, Vertiflite , [ 3 ] as well as one of the only technical publication devoted solely to vertical flight, The ...
Basically, as lab frame or reference frame, there are two kinds of conventions for the frames: East, North, Up (ENU), used in geography; North, East, Down (NED), used specially in aerospace; This frame referenced w.r.t. Global Reference frames like Earth Center Earth Fixed (ECEF) non-inertial system.
The Vertical Aviation International (VAI) is a not-for-profit professional trade association of over 2,500 member organizations in more than 68 nations. In 2024, Helicopter Association International (HAI) rebranded into Vertical Aviation International.
In 1999, the convention drew 5,410 registrations, including people from across the United States and 52 other countries. During a 10-day period, there were over 65,000 jumps made, 503 of which were tandem jumps. 84 AFS students passed, 393 kegs were given away, and $30,855 was raised for various charities.
The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell Helicopter for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. [2] The aircraft was officially unveiled at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America's (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas.
The K-1200 K-MAX "aerial truck" is the world's first helicopter specifically designed, tested, and certified for repetitive external lift operations and vertical reference flight (Kaman received IFR Certification in 1999), an important feature for external load work. Other rotorcraft used for these tasks are adapted from general-purpose ...
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A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway.This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes.