Airbus Expands Environmental Trials To Larger Helicopters

Tony Osborne October 06, 2017
Credit: Alexander Lutz
Airbus Helicopters has quietly begun flight tests of a five-blade main rotor on its H145 light twin-engine helicopters. The trials being conducted at the company’s Donauworth facility in Germany are believed to be related to ongoing environmental research related to noise-level reduction. In 2006...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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