Heavy Transport Helicopter Of Eurocopter

ILA: Heavy transport helicopter design comes to life 

Eurocopter is showing a fuselage segment for a proposed Future Transport Helicopter (FTH), which it believes could meet the requirements of military users and civilian agencies responding to humanitarian disasters.
"We have finalised our preliminary design based on NATO staff targets, which we hope will soon become requirements," says Hans Weber, Eurocopter vice-president of heavy transport helicopters.
Driven by the French and German armies, the targets call for the ability to carry "as much internal cargo as possible", says German army aviation commander Brig Reinhard Wolski. The proposed aircraft has a planned 33t maximum take-off weight, including 15t in the cargo hold, or an under-slung load of 18t. Existing engine candidates include General Electric's GE38, in development for the US Marine Corps' future Sikorsky CH-53K, and the Rolls-Royce AE 1107, which powers the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor.

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