Inspection of another Bell 212, it says, found another main rotor strap pin to be “deformed” after just 29h. Both had the same part number, were made by the same manufacturer, and had the same ...

Operators of around 1,200 Bell 47 helicopters still flying have been hit by an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requiring expensive inspections of the main rotor blade grips. Bell disputes ...

leading to detachment of the main rotor blade and the main rotor head." An inspection of another Canadian Bell 212 helicopter found a main rotor hub strap pin of the same part number to be ...

And when the main top rotor is spinning, that tail rotor is always spinning, too. With the new Bell aircraft, the four fans in the back aren’t connected mechanically to the chopper’s engines ...

(Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing/Facebook) A defective rotor pin suspected as the cause of a deadly helicopter crash west of Edmonton last week has grounded some models of Bell helicopters across ...