HELICOPTERS OF THE FUTURE
Over years, the helicopter industry has focused on making its product a safer and economically viable product. If until the mid-1990s the main manufacturers were concerned about popularizing the use of helicopters among civilians, especially with executives and charter companies, in the last two decades the focus changed.
Who regularly visits the Heli-Expo, at every edition perceives several advances in the segment. If helicopters continue to be aesthetically similar to what they were 20 or 30 years ago – especially projects renowned such as the AS350, of the now Airbus Helicopters –, a more critical analysis allows to note that they just look like the original model, and that’s it.
Composite material technologies have made it possible to perfect the rotor blades, which became more light and aerodynamically efficient. During
