Helicopter rotor blades are no longer made out of wood, rather they're made out of composite materials to maximize their ...

Helicopters are set apart from other aircraft in a very big way: the rotors. There's the main rotor and the tail rotor. Ever wonder what the tail rotor does?

The Throttle on the Collective Control feeds power to match the blade pitch. And, finally, foot pedals control the tail rotor to point the helicopter in a particular direction. Dealing with all ...

NASA says that the helicopter made hard contact with a sand-ripple slope, causing it to pitch and roll. The sudden change in altitude was too much for the rotor blades, and four of them broke off ...

In other words, a crash landing that likely made Ingenuity pitch and roll on a sandy Martian slope. That snapped the rotor blades, with one blade completely separating from the helicopter.