I'm sure they are very clever but Ray Prouty had a lot to say about how you don't get something for nothing with helicopter design.
He was saying it 40 years ago. Things have moved on a bit...
Because that has never been tried before.....
I don't mean to sound too cynical Hughes, but it sounds like the Labour manifesto - too good to be true.
The only thing I can think of is that they are building a next generation autogyro rather than an actual helicopter.
Is that lurking owner you by any chance??
It's a good everybody doesn't get out of bed every morning with this attitude, you'd all still be flying around in one of these...
I've worked on a couple of Innovate UK projects.
The don't hand over that kind of money on a whim, there will have been some rigorous due diligence done.
I suspect H500 is right, there's something Innovate UK have got excited about...