Future High Speed Helicopter and next generation rotorcraft

Blitzo said:

Well, the reason R6000 is more notable than the others is how mature it looks.
Features like:
- fixed engine tiltrotor (like V280)
- folding rotors and wing assembly from outset
- two forward and one rear landing gear design (more sensible for utility rotorcraft role)
- sensible cabin/fuselage design

It is a design, which if they keep everything the same but scaled up to a 12-15t MTOW rotorcraft (engines being a limiting factor of course), would tick off every box you'd need for a military (including navy) compatible next gen tiltrotor

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that's a pretty big jump for a company currently making delivery drones.

I guess if PLA sees enough progress in this, it may issue some kind RFP for larger next gen tiltrotor. And it will be interesting to see if a civilian company like this can compete against one of the AVIC subsidiaries.

tphuang said:

that's a pretty big jump for a company currently making delivery drones.

I guess if PLA sees enough progress in this, it may issue some kind RFP for larger next gen tiltrotor. And it will be interesting to see if a civilian company like this can compete against one of the AVIC subsidiaries.

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Well, this tiltrotor "drone" (really it should be just called a tiltrotor because it clearly can be manned as well) is already a rather big jump from what they were doing before.

My personal feeling is that the next generation of rotorcraft to succeed Z-20 will be a tiltrotor that looks something like V280 or an enlarged version of R6000.
Whether it's AVIC that develops it, or this company, or someone else, or an amalgamation of them, I have no opinion on. But this R6000 itself shows a very mature concept with all of the fundamentals down, and if they can actually develop it without huge issues then it would have some interesting implications for what the overall state of the PRC rotor industry is at.