Airbus Racer

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  Airbus Unveils NATO NGRC Rotorcraft Proposal

  Feb 23, 2026 · Airbus has unveiled its next-generation rotorcraft concept designed in partnership with RTX and MDBA to meet NATO’s NGRC study requirements, highlighting advanced speed, range, survivability and digital architecture for future European military ope
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  Airbus Racer Speeds Past 400 km/h

  Jul 23, 2024 · Airbus Racer, the high-speed helicopter demonstrator developed for European Research Clean Sky 2 project, has reached its fast cruise speed target of 407 km/h ~ 220 kts
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  Airbus Racer Demonstrator First Flight

  Apr 25, 2024 · Racer, Airbus’s high-speed helicopter demonstrator for the European Research Clean Sky 2 project, completed its first flight in Marignane, France. With a new hybrid-electric eco-mode, it can pause one of the two Aneto-1X engines, thereby contributi
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  Safran Eco Mode Hybrid Engine for Airbus Racer

  Jun 19, 2023 · Safran Helicopter Engines has validated its Eco Mode hybrid propulsion system for upcoming flight tests on the Airbus Racer high-speed helicopter demonstrator
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  Racer Demonstrator Takes Shape

  Apr 14, 2021 · Airbus high-speed demonstrator Racer assembly has begun in Donauwörth, Germany with the arrival of the centre fuselage.
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  SMART-FTI Test Instrumentation for RACER

  Aug 19, 2020 · With a €1.2M funding by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme for the next three years, the SMART-FTI project for Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will design a specialised aerodynamic flight test instrumentation for the Clean Sky 2 demonstra