Piasecki Aircraft has secured new work for its ‘Heliplex’ facility in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, signing a collaboration agreement with Columbia Helicopters to upgrade Model 107 tandem-rotor ...
Frank Piasecki, 88, an engineer who flew the second successful helicopter in America and built the first technically and commercially viable tandem-rotor helicopter, died Feb. 11 at his home in ...
COATESVILLE — Sen. Bob Casey was on hand, Tuesday, to help celebrate the strategic collaboration between helicopter builders Piasecki Aircraft Corp. and Columbia Helicopters. Helicopter modifications ...
The hard-working, multi-role Piasecki H-21 helicopter, known as the "Flying Banana," was the brainchild of Frank Piasecki, who founded the P-V Engineering Forum alongside his college buddy, Harold ...
The upgrades to the rotorcraft will be done in a former Sikorsky factory now run by Piasecki Columbia Helicopters owns the type and production certificates for the Model 107-II heavy-lift, tandem ...