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Army

AgustaWestland Reveals Tiltrotor Technology Demonstrator

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

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Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland this week took the wraps off its Project Zero—a tiltrotor technology demonstrator already secretly flown over the past two years. The demonstrator was designed and built in less than six months, funded entirely by the company as part of its research and development work. Project Zero is powered completely by electricity, designed to hover like a helicopter, and convert to a fixed-wing configuration for forward flight. It has two integrated rotors that can be tilted through more than…

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