Owners and operators of all U.S.-registered Agusta A109E Power helicopters are being required to reduce their tail-rotor blade life limit, as well as reins ...

The tail rotor blades can pitch up and down to control the direction of the fuselage, similar to how the main rotor blades also alter their geometry to move the helicopter.

And the small tail rotor, perched vertically out on a boom behind the cabin, keeps the helicopter's body from spinning in the opposite direction as the main blades, but it also eats up about 30 ...

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 ...

Kyle Bailey, an aviation analyst, said it was "likely" that the separating rotor blades may have sliced off the aircraft’s tail boom. Such a scenario would have been unrecoverable, aviation ...

The tail rotor blades can pitch up and down to control the direction of the fuselage, similar to how the main rotor blades also alter their geometry to move the helicopter.