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'Fugu' rescue chopper redesigns the Life Flight standard

Despite being named after an amazingly lethal fish, industrial designer Matt Bassett's H1 "Fugu" rescue helicopter is designed to save lives, and do it better than the 'copters that came before. He's worked it out so that the Fugu has the same spacious interior as a Chinook helicopter — the same one our military uses for troop and cargo deliveries — yet the Fugu is almost half its length. For a rescue chopper, that would mean more personnel and supplies, or more patients ferried to a medical center, all while being able to land in a much smaller space. As good as the Fugu sounds, it's just a concept. But hey, that's how it starts, right?
Check out the gallery below for a model of the Fugu and more detail.
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Via Yanko Design
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By Boxerfanatic at 2:24 PM ON 09/18/08
This looks pretty cool, but it has a pretty big rotor shadow, especially in the back. And the turbine exhaust goes right into the rotor down-wash, and washes down over the fuselage toward the cargo doors in hover or landing/takeoff.
Very interesting concept, the landing gear looks very interesting for non-level surface landing, and I like contra-rotor designs, and this is a big one that really does take advantage.
By murc at 5:42 PM ON 09/18/08
that looks pretty sweet.
build it.
By Stonecold at 10:44 AM ON 09/19/08
With landing gear like that I don't think it will survive a auto-rotate decent much less a crash.