TIANJIN, China — Avicopter is developing a technology demonstrator for a high-speed helicopter, adopting a compound configuration that combines coaxial rigid rotors and nose-mounted counter-rotating ...

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Here’s What You Need To Remember: The new aircraft will employ several measures designed to make it quieter, including, most notably, a counter-rotating rotor that muffles the sound of the first. The ...

Airbus has showed off a new helicopter concept at the Paris Airshow that could give operators everything they want: speed, versatility and economy. The Racer (rapid and cost-effective rotorcraft) ...

Airbus Helicopters appears to be working on a new automated safety system for its high-speed Racer compound rotorcraft that would use its twin propellers to provide power to the main rotor in the case ...