The Airbus Racer is an experimental airframe.
Airbus uses the Racer as a testbed for technology, one of its main focuses is developing an aerodynamic airframe. Aside from a sleek design, it features a pair of box-wing outriggers equipped with additional rotors and a twin-boom tail that forgoes the typical rear rotor setup.
The Airbus team set a goal of reaching a fast cruise speed of 253 mph, which it achieved within two months of the Racer’s first flight. Test pilot Hervé Jammayrac later pushed it up to 260 mph. It achieved its speed in part due to a design that produces a drag coefficient in the same range as Airbus’s smallest models despite its larger size.
A pair of Safran Aneto-1X engines each make 2,500 shp.
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