Project description
Developing next-generation rotorcraft
Rotorcraft designers always strive to improve payload lifting capability, reduce fuel burn and increase the vehicle’s range. Europe’s Clean Sky 2 programme has planned for two very different types of rotorcraft: a tiltrotor and a compound rotorcraft. With this in mind, the EU-funded GAM-2020-FRC project aims to design, build and fly a novel next-generation civil tiltrotor technology demonstrator. The configuration will include tilting proprotors mounted on fixed nacelles at the wing tips, whose design will minimise rotor downwash impingement in hover and increase efficiency. The project will also develop and test a full-scale flightworthy demonstrator for compound rotorcraft. This new rotorcraft architecture comprises a lifting rotor with two lateral rotors at the tips of box wings, in pusher configuration.
Objective
The challenge in rotorcraft design is always to improve payload-lifting capability, reduce fuel burn and increase the vehicle's
range – the traditional objectives in aeronautical design.
The Fast Rotorcraft IADP of Clean Sky 2 consists of two flight demonstrators, the Next Generation Civil TiltRotor (NGCTR) [leader: Leonardo Helicopters] and the RACER compound helicopter [leader: Airbus Helicopters]. These two fast rotorcraft concepts aim to deliver superior vehicle productivity and performance, and through this economic advantage to users.
NGCTR aims to design, build and fly an innovative next generation civil tiltrotor technology demonstrator. The configuration will go beyond current architectures of this type of aircraft and will involve tilting proprotors mounted in fixed nacelles at the tips of the wing. The wing will have a fixed inboard portion and a tilting outboard portion to minimize rotor downwash impingement in hover and increase efficiency. Demonstration activities will aim at validating the technologies/systems and operational concepts.
The RACER (formerly LifeRCraft) aims at developing and flight-testing in 2020-2023 a full scale flightworthy demonstrator, which embodies the new European compound rotorcraft architecture. This architecture combines a lifting rotor with two lateral rotors at the tips of box-wings, in pusher configuration.
This proposal presents the work plan 2020-2021 toward the achievement of the FRC IADP final objectives.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftrotorcraft
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
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13700 Marignane
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86609 Donauworth
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90-330 Lodz
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SW1Y 6AF LONDON
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061126 Bucuresti
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80138 Napoli
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10040 Rivalta Di Torino
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43 300 Bielsko-Biala
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60313 Frankfurt Am Main
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013975 Bucuresti
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80121 Napoli Na
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31500 Toulouse
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31079 Toulouse
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81043 Capua
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80142 Napoli
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80078 Pozzuoli (Na)
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LV-1073 Riga
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LV-1073 RIGA
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811 06 Bratislava Stare Mesto
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21129 Hamburg
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80038 POMIGLIANO D' ARCO NA
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00135 Roma
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83046 Lacedonia Av
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06034 Foligno Pg
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