Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Airbus's X3 Prototype Uses Three Rotors to Break Airspeed Records


In the chimeric world of vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft, the most common hybrid one finds are tiltrotor planes with helicopter-like abilities. But the X3 prototype from Airbus took the opposite approach. It transformed a traditional helicopter into a high-speed turboprop.


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