While the FAA reviews new regulations to okay light sports helicopters, aerospace companies Advanced Tactics and Rotor X have teamed up to use military helicopter technology to create a fly-by ...

A California partnership says its fly-by-wire two-seat helicopter can be flown away by anyone with $188,000, a driver’s license, medical and 30 hours of training.

The FAA has released a 300-page unpublished version of a proposed rule that would amend and modernize its approach to regulating light-sport aircraft (LSA) to account for new technologies and use ...

So far, those can be found in military hardware like the F-35B, or the FBW sidesticks of the high-end Dassault Falcon 6X, ... an experimental light-sport aircraft already popular on the market.

This leap into the U.S. market is being helmed by SilverLight Aviation founder Abid Farooqui. Farooqui is well-regarded in ...