X3

On 27th September 2010, and after months of speculation, the aviation media were finally given the opportunity to see close up of Eurocopter high speed helicopter concept demonstrator.

The X3 (the X cubed), standing for high-speed, long-range Hybrid Helicopter, has been funded entirely out of the company’s research budget and has been under development for the last two and a half years. Eurocopter began test flights of the X3 for the first time on 6th September 2010 from the French military flight test centre at Istres in the South of France...