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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

CarterCopter Pushing Out the Speed Envelope?

It isn't clear from the story below exactly when this flight took place, but if a small manufacturer's rotary-wing vehicle that is clearly not yet optimized for high speed can push it out to nearly 175 knots, we may have a paradigm-shift coming on the rotary-wing side of the house.  Let's see where this one goes...

http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/helicopters/video-500-mph-helicopter

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