Eurocopter is formally entering the contest to manufacture a high-speed helicopter with its new X3 technology supporter. The model helicopter is planned to offer “the speed of a turboprop-powered airplane and the complete hover-flight capacities of a helicopter,” according to Eurocopter.
The declaration from Europe approaches just days after Sikorsky’s high-speed helicopter take off at its target speed of 250 knots. The Sikorsky X2 has been in voyage testing for two years and the 250-knot flight is the fastest yet for a helicopter flying without outer boost.
The two prototypes utilize very special approaches to high-speed helicopter flight. The Sikorsky utilizes a pair of counter-rotating main rotors and a supplier prop on the tail. Eurocopter’s X3 hybrid design applies a pair of turbine engines to power the main rotor as well as a pair of forward-facing propellers increased on small wings.
The drive for high-speed helicopters is being determined by military demands, though both companies mention civilian applications with search-and-rescue and medical-evacuation flights.
In fact Eurocopter donates to the Nigel Tufnel school of consideration that using a quantity that is just one more must be superior — finished its first flight Sept. 6, but it was only revealed to the public this week.
Eurocopter says testing will maintain through the end of the year and the plan is to steadily work their way to 180 knots by December. After a three-month promotion over the winter, the X3 will recommence testing in March 2011 and the company says it anticipates the helicopter to reach cruise speeds of 220 knots.
The declaration from Europe approaches just days after Sikorsky’s high-speed helicopter take off at its target speed of 250 knots. The Sikorsky X2 has been in voyage testing for two years and the 250-knot flight is the fastest yet for a helicopter flying without outer boost.
The two prototypes utilize very special approaches to high-speed helicopter flight. The Sikorsky utilizes a pair of counter-rotating main rotors and a supplier prop on the tail. Eurocopter’s X3 hybrid design applies a pair of turbine engines to power the main rotor as well as a pair of forward-facing propellers increased on small wings.
The drive for high-speed helicopters is being determined by military demands, though both companies mention civilian applications with search-and-rescue and medical-evacuation flights.
In fact Eurocopter donates to the Nigel Tufnel school of consideration that using a quantity that is just one more must be superior — finished its first flight Sept. 6, but it was only revealed to the public this week.
Eurocopter says testing will maintain through the end of the year and the plan is to steadily work their way to 180 knots by December. After a three-month promotion over the winter, the X3 will recommence testing in March 2011 and the company says it anticipates the helicopter to reach cruise speeds of 220 knots.
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