I am hopelessly biased towards the EC120 as I share ownership of one and fly it frequently. It looks inordinately sexy on the ramp, and must have been designed by someone, male or female, with testoterone in their veins.
It gets good comments from first time flyers too, of both sexes, so it must be doing something right. It really looks the dogs.
OK it may have performance limitations but on the pure aesthetics of a turbine single it is up there with the car designs of Ferrari, Aston Martin and Lotus.
So back to the thread. Who did design it? Or was Eurocopter such an amorphous conglomerate at the time that it was a committee job? Perhaps EC does not want to recognise its designers to prevent them being poached by other companies?