Europe’s Fast Rotorcraft In Race To First Flight

Airbus Helicopters Racer prototype

First flights of flagship rotorcraft demonstrators under the EU’s Clean Sky 2 program are coming down to the wire.

Credit: Airbus Helicopters
Europe’s two fast-rotorcraft demonstrator projects are racing to achieve first flight before the EU’s long-running Clean Sky 2 research program finishes at the end of March and funding expires. Both teams already acknowledge that planned flight-test campaigns will have to be financed from other...
Graham Warwick

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