Eurocopter is officially entering the race to develop a high-speed helicopter with its new X3 technology demonstrator. The prototype helicopter is designed to offer "the speed of a turboprop-powered ...

Eurocopter has announced a new pair of speed records set by its hybrid helicopter demonstrator, the X3. Piloted by Hervé Jammayrac, the X3 reached a level flight speed of 255 knots (472 km/h) over the ...

Eurocopter is reporting a new breakthrough in the test flight program for its X3 high-speed, long-range Hybrid Helicopter demonstrator. The aircraft is equipped with two turboshaft engines that power ...

Eurocopter is bringing its X3 experimental hybrid helicopter demonstrator to the United States this month for a summer tour that could include a visit to a town near you. The first stop will be ...

The Eurocopter X3 hybrid helicopter has opened the frontiers of aviation by attaining a speed milestone of 255 knots (472 km/hr) in level flight on June 7. Several days before this accomplishment, the ...

As Eurocopter presses ahead with development of its X3 technology demonstrator with a view to introducing the radical high-speed technology commercially in six years, the key challenge is not ...

Helicopter manufacturers all over the world are trying to find ways to make the aircraft faster, and yet keep the ability to hover in tact. With designs and concepts out in the world, only a few ...

While helicopters have long had a reputation as the most nimble of aircraft, they're also relatively slow compared to planes. That's the one drawback that the military and the flight industry seemed ...

Like the Sikorsky X2, it has no tail rotor – so the pitch of the left and right propeller blades subtly adjust automatically in flight to maintain stability and to provide steering, says Billig, but ...

The X2 has company – it’s called the X3. Eurocopter, the European helicopter maker that is one of Sikorsky Aircraft’s few rivals, this week said it had begun flight tests for a prototype rotorcraft it ...