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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in flight. Vlad Lazarenko/Wikimedia

July 15, 2024

Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so

Advances in technology, training and maintenance have helped make an inherently challenging vehicle – rotorcraft – safe.

Javelin anti-tank missiles, T-72 tanks and Bayraktar TB2 drones are just some of the weapons that other nations have sent to Ukraine. Getty Images, Associated Press, Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Department of Defense

May 6, 2022

Ukraine receives weapons support from around the world

Jordan Cohen, George Mason University

An arms trade expert explains the wide variety of military aid nations around the world have sent to Ukraine.

Model of Leonardo da Vinci’s helicopter from the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist and Inventor”, Sofia, 2007. EPA/Krum Stoev

May 3, 2019

Leonardo da Vinci’s helicopter: 15th‑century flight of fancy led to modern aeronautics

Jonathan Ridley, Southampton Solent University

Leonardo’s range of knowledge fascination with flying led directly to the development of modern aircraft, nearly four centuries later.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Honeylet Avancena as he arrives at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila in November 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

February 25, 2018

Why did it take so long for Canada to kill the Philippines helicopter sale?

Netina Tan, McMaster University and Marvin Mercado, McMaster University

The Canadian deal to sell helicopters to the Philippines has finally been killed. What took so long, and why was it the Philippines, not Canada, that ultimately scrubbed the deal?

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