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DARPA believes in the heliplane formula for the future of SAR missions

Washington, USA - A prototype could be ready by 2008

Despite the great attention payed by the United States for both civil and military programmes regarding the tilt-rotor formula (such as for example the BA-609 and the V-22 Osprey), the US DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) thinks that there is room also for other hybrid solutions which can take advantage both by the traditional fix-winged flight and by the rotor-winged flexibility. The...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 133702
Rome, Italy, 12/26/2005 14:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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