British actor Sean Bean won’t fly. On at least one occasion during filming of The Lord of the Rings, he forced the air-lifted cast to wait on a snowy mountaintop while he ascended on foot to join them. He just didn't trust the helicopter. Bean (and his future colleagues) might be happy to know that somebody’s working to make helicopters safer.
A research team, led by Vadrevu Murthy from the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University, studies aerodynamic loads on helicopter rotors that transfer directly to the vehicle’s control system. The team’s numerical simulations of air flow are expected to advance helicopter rotor technology and lead to designs that avoid instability (and nervous would-be passengers). Read more  | 
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