Publication: Multipurpose helicopter
Date
2008-04-01
Authors
Abu Nawas, Sayeda Nafisah
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Helicopters are the most popular type of aircraft being used widely in various tasks. Nowadays, light helicopter with multipurpose mission seems to be one of the major trends in the aircraft design. There are used for air ambulance, search and rescue operation, take photographs, film movies, air transportation, and fire detection.
The main features that makes the helicopters in high demand is it can take off and land vertically. They do no need a runaway but just a helipod required and they are very ideal transports for operation in very limited space and suitable to use in major place in Malaysia especially in rural area where there is no airstrip. The ability of helicopter to hover means that it can land almost anywhere fairly flat firm surface exists and can move freely from a spot to another spot.
Referring to the situation in Malaysia, there is a high demanding for helicopter use especially by the government, industry, and corporate sector. Therefore, it is expedient to design the light multipurpose helicopter that may be used to fulfill the requirements of nowadays and future, and suit the topography of Malaysia. The final year project entitle “Light Multipurpose Helicopter’ is a very interesting project because there a lot of opportunities for innovation and highly multidisciplinary nature of helicopter engineering problems.