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Eurocopter To Fly New Technology Demonstrator This Fall

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

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HAMPSHIRE, England--The Eurocopter subsidiary of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) plans to introduce a new technology demonstrator by the end of the year, the head of the company said recently. "This year, in the autumn, we will conduct the first flight of a new technology demonstrator, but I will not disclose what technology this will be," Lutz Bertling, Eurocopter's president and CEO, told reporters here at the EADS pre-Farnborough Air Show media seminar. "We intend to come up…

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