{"id":188306,"date":"2010-10-23T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/23\/unconventional-helicopter-developments\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:49:00","slug":"unconventional-helicopter-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/23\/unconventional-helicopter-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconventional Helicopter Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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250 kt record breaking flight, complete with Pr0n film*<\/sup> music soundtrack<\/p>\n

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The EADS X3<\/p>\n

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And their EADS\/Eurocopter video<\/p>\n

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X2 Raider Mockup<\/p>\n

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The X-2 Raider, blissfully music free<\/span><\/div>\n

Graham Warwick gives a survey of new technologies that might find their way into the Joint Multi Role (JMR) rotorcraft program<\/a>, along with the video of the X-2’s record breaking flight (top)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, EADS is flight testing its X3<\/a> (I wonder where they got that<\/span> name) compound helo, which uses dual wingtip props, and it provides anti-torque by varying the pitch of the thrusters.<\/p>\n

It’s far less ambitious than that of the X-2, but their selling point is reduced life cycle cost, which is probably more a shot at the expensive tilt-rotors out there than the X-2 advancing blade concept, which really doesn’t seem particularly different in the amount of bits that move.<\/p>\n

One interesting twist is that the X3 will slow its rotor at higher speed, reducing drag, though I could see this added to an advancing blade helicopter as well, particularly if the aircraft has a wing.<\/p>\n

My quick look at the demonstrator indicates that it is not a particularly useful helicopter.<\/p>\n

With two props about a yard from where the entrance to the passenger\/cargo area is, both loading and unload, as well as the use of a winch for a rescue mission, would appear to me to be highly problematic.<\/p>\n

Of course, the X3 is a demonstrator cobbled together with bits of various existing helicopters, so an operational version would likely address these shortcomings.<\/p>\n

Sikorsky is also pitching a replacement for the OH-58D, theS-97 X2 Raider<\/a>, which is rather similar to the MI-24 Hind or the Augusta\/Westland Lynx concepts for an attack helicopter which retains transport capabilities or the ability to carry its own reloads.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Not that I’d know what pr0n movies’ sound tracks actually sound like.<\/span>\u2020<\/sup>
\u2020<\/sup>Not that there is anything wrong with that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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