Airbus Helicopters chief executive Bruno Even has played down fears over the sales performance of its H160, following a year ...

The Fenestron is now a familiar sight on helicopters produced by companies like Aérospatiale, sud-aviation and later Airbus but before 1968 the safety-improving device didn’t exist, We look back at 50 ...

Thanks to its Fenestron shrouded tail rotor and automatic variable rotor speed control, the EC130 B4 is the quietest helicopter in its category with a noise signature 6 dB below ICAO limits. The ...

The enclosed Fenestron design dates back to French manufacturer Sud Aviation, who used it on their popular Gazelle helicopter. Sud Aviation merged into Aérospatiale, which then merged into Airbus.

The helicopter has a four-bladed rigid rotor head with flexible composite arms that connect the rotor head to the composite blades and an 11-bladed, composite Fenestron-shrouded tail rotor. The ...

including provision of a Fenestron in place of the conventional tail rotor. Now under Eurocopter control after Aerospatiale and DASA merged their helicopter divisions, prototypes of what had become ...

1 has introduced digital technology to the helicopter training programme ... which emerged in 2011 equipped with Arriel 2E turboshafts and a Fenestron. This aircraft forms the basis of the current ...