During the 3 days that last in the same time Helitech and MRO Europe at Rai Amsterdam, Airbus Helicopter announces 10 new helicopters command while Tomasz Krysinski, Research and innovation director of the Franco-German company, talked about latest progress with development of its Racer (Rapid and Cost Efficient Rotorcraft) technology demonstrator.
Saf group, a French operator based in the Alps commanded 6 helicopters to European helicopter manufacturer. This command is for three light single-engineand three light double-engine, these helicopters ill be operate in France and will be delivered in 2019. These 6 helicopter will be added to the 38 other helicopters from Airbus that own the french Operator including 24 from H135 familly.
Airbus Helicopters and partners on the Racer demonstration program have explained how they expect to meet performance targets and remain on time for a first flight of the compound helicopter in 2020.
Airbus Helicopter announced advancement related to its Racer. The program has been founded by European Union framework to the Clean Sky 2 program which is going to achieve the best trade-off between speed, cost-efficiency, sustainability and mission performance.
The 200-hour Racer flight demonstration will begin in 2020, with the first phase will focus on envelope expansion and on assessing key performance parameters as well as handling qualities, stability, and aerodynamics. The second phase of flight testing demonstrated the aircraft’s suitability for particular missions in which increased speed and efficiency would be useful, including search & rescue (SAR), emergency medical services (EMS), and private and corporate transport.
Airbus Helicopter hopes that the aircraft will set new benchmarks for high-speed helicopter transportation. That was 3 important days for European Leader.
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