Ever wondered why helicopters have two control sticks while airplanes usually have one? Learn how helicopter controls work ...

Cyclic control also allows the aircraft to fly forward at higher speeds: if a helicopter cruises at 100 mph and the rotor tips are moving at 100 mph, that means that the blade tips advancing ...

Helicopters are known for being notoriously tricky aircraft to fly, requiring all four limbs acting in concert to manage the throttle, the collective control, the cyclic control and the pedals ...

Skyryse says its aircraft will be the first production fly-by-wire helicopter piloted with a single control stick and two touchscreens. [Courtesy: SkyRyse] “When you remove the mechanical parts ...

"Until today, every helicopter ever built has taken off using basically the same mechanical controls that Igor Sikorsky used in his first flight 85 years ago," said Mark Groden, CEO of Skyryse.

But Kyosho is trying to sort that out with its upcoming “Minium AD Caliber 120 Readyset” micro-helicopter model, which has a proper cyclic control—the world’s first in a micro-copter ...

Britain’s Prince Harry checks out the controls from the right seat of a Eurocopter AS350 (Squirrel) helicopter. Ministry of Defense, Crown copyright Patrick McCourt of Huntington, New York ...

Pascal Chretien took the world's first manned electric helicopter on a 2 minute 10 ... Chretien created a new weight-shifting system that replaces cyclic control and variable blade tilting with a ...