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The RACER (Speedy and Value-Efficient Rotorcraft) combines the pace of a fixed-wing plane with the vertical benefits of a helicopter. Developed as a mission of the European Union’s Clear Sky program, the RACER staff additionally targeted on sustainability targets. Plans are for the RACER, with a cruise pace of greater than 400 km/h, for use for search and rescue and transportation in medical emergencies in addition to for city air mobility.
“The RACER is a fairly complicated machine with additional elements. However regardless of all that the goal is to develop a whole rotorcraft, aiming for demonstrating time-critical missions,” Antonello Marino, mission officer at Clear Sky, defined. “A serious facet of the problem is to reconcile the environmental targets — to scale back CO2 by 20%, NOx by 20% and noise by 20 — with out including weight. We have to add wing bins and two lateral rotors to attain the increase in pace, whereas staying throughout the weight envelope of a traditional helicopter. This implies having to combine new techno-bricks, lighter supplies and modern considering.”
