Eurocopter Ponders X3 Helicopter’s Next Steps

Credit: Eurocopter
Eurocopter's X3 has claimed the unofficial helicopter speed record from Sikorsky's X2, achieving 255 kt. in level flight and 263 kt. in a dive, and raising the question of what comes next for the European manufacturer's high-speed rotorcraft concept. In flights at the Istres test base near Marseille...

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