The tail rotor blades can pitch up and down to control the direction of the fuselage, similar to how the main rotor blades also alter their geometry to move the helicopter.

Emergency responders at the Mercy Flight crash that killed two pilots on April 26 in Elba have known that the Bell 429 helicopter landed in two pieces: the main body and the tail.

Investigators probing the fatal crash on 6 July of the first Bell 525 Relentless prototype believe the main rotorblades struck both its nose and tail boom as it performed a high-speed simulated ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Defense Ministry says the main rotor blades fell off one of its military helicopters as it plunged to the ground in northern Mali last month, killing both crewmembers ...

Eurocopter's X3 helicopter uses forward-facing propellers on stub wings to increase speed by compensating for retreating blade stall, a limitation in traditional helicopter designs. The X3 ...

Authorities say a man was hit in the head by the main rotor blades and killed while working on a helicopter at a Florida airport.

However, investigators said one of the helicopter’s two main rotor blades were separated and locked about 20 feet from the main wreckage.

The helicopter that crashed in Erie last week — killing both people on board — lost its main rotor after coming in for a landing at a “steep angle,” according to a prelimina… ...

In atraditional helicopter, the main rotor blades revolve horizontally around acentral point and move forward and backward during each revolution.

A European company has invented noise-canceling helicopter blades that virtually eliminate the loud air chopping that gives choppers their nickname.