AVIC Tests Advanced Tiltrotor, Coaxial-Rotor Compound Designs

Chen Chuanren Tony Osborne Graham Warwick August 29, 2025

Changhe coaxial-rotor compound helicopter — Changhe’s coaxial-rotor compound helicopter resembles Sikorsky’s 240-kt. S-97.

Credit: Illustration by Colin Throm/AW&ST

By the time it withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of operating at high altitudes in harsh conditions, the U.S. Army was convinced it needed a new generation of rotorcraft with twice the range and twice the speed of its current helicopters. The result was the Future Long-Range...

Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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