The tail rotor blades on all 742 Apache helicopters will be inspected before the choppers are allowed to fly again. The action follows an incident in which the tail rotor assembly fell off an ...

An Israeli Apache crashed when its tail rotor assembly separated from the helicopter, leading to the latest grounding order, according to Capt. Amy Hannah, an Army spokeswoman.

APACHE TAIL ROTOR: The Army plans to install thin pieces of metal to the leading edges of the four tail rotor blades of the Apache helicopter. These "tail rotor abrasion strips," says a spokesman ...

The U.S. Army has joined the Israeli Air Force in a sweeping investigation of AH-64 Apache helicopters following Israel’s discovery earlier this month of a crack in the rear rotor blade of one ...

Tail rotor crack discovery grounds Israel's Apache fleet. By Arie Egozi 2017-06-14T14:16:47+01:00. Israel's air force has temporarily grounded its Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, ...

The Israeli air force is to slash the interval for replacing tail rotor blades on its Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, after a 7.8in (20cm)-long crack was found during a routine inspection ...

The U.S. Army is sending six X-ray technicians to key Apache helicopter units around the world in an effort to determine which tail rotor blades on the aircraft need to be replaced. The effort is ...

This method requires the rotor to be powered, otherwise it wouldn't spin fast enough to create enough force to maintain altitude, and is fundamentally why helicopters need tail rotors. As a ...

Co announces that its Ducommun AeroStructures subsidiary has been awarded follow-on contracts from The Boeing Company (BA) valued at $9.9 mln for AH-64 Apache helicopter tail rotor blades for use ...

Conventional spinning tail rotors are a real hazard: If a person and tail rotor make contact, it’s horrifyingly bad. For example, in 1994, in Alaska, a logging equipment manager perished after ...

The AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, built by Boeing Co.,have been grounded twice before, both times to checkpotentially dangerous tail rotor problems.