Eurocopter Hubschrauber 2010

[Antonio]

Found this pic on Flug Revue 3/95 Helicopter Special page 11

Is that a real project or just an exercice of conceptual art?

 

[yasotay]

I suspect it is conceptual art for where technology might have helicopters fifteen years on.

 

[hesham]

Found this pic on Flug Revue 3/95 Helicopter Special page 11

Is that a real project or just an exercice of conceptual art?

It is real my dear Pometablava,please see Jane's all the world's aircraft 1995-1996.

 

[fightingirish]

I suspect it is conceptual art for where technology might have helicopters fifteen years on.

More Sources:
FLUG REVUE 2/98- EUROCOPTER RESEARCH INITIATIVES FOR THE "HELICOPTER 2010 - Page 56
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 28 June - 4 July 1995 - Rotary researches
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 22 - 28 March 1995 - Eurocopter launches effort to to expand a civil-design

 

[SteveO]

I think that small rotor above the main is some sort of radar (you can see pulse lines at the tips). Think it was mentioned in a issue of Flight International a few years back.

Flight archives time!

 

[SteveO]

FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 28 June - 4 July 1995 - Rotary researches

fightingirish found it for me ;D

Possibly the most significant all-weather system under development, however, is the rotor-mounted HeliRadar, a rotating-antenna synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), designed to give the pilot an artificial external view.

 

[yasotay]

While I have no doubt that Eurocopter is very busy in the R&D department, I still believe that the art shown is very much conceptual.

 

[SteveO]

While I have no doubt that Eurocopter is very busy in the R&D department, I still believe that the art shown is very much conceptual.

Busy on the X3 by the looks of it, possibly a highly modified AW101 Merlin?

Hi,

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/02/heli-expo-r-r-lifts-veil-on-eu.html