세계 회전익기 산업 기술 동향

This paper reviews rotorcraft technology road-map of USA government and military rotorcraft development plan and analyzes business and research of NASA and some American helicopter manufacturers. And it introduces European Union(EU)"s programs related to the area of "Aeronautics and Air Transport system(AAT)" and R&D projects of EU"s rotorcraft technologies. And it investigates the rotorcraft industrial trend of China, India, Japan and Russia. Also, this paper provides the current business situation of the worldwide four helicopter manufacturers which have over 80% civil helicopter market share and the activities analysis for improving helicopter flight safety of NextGen program(U.S.) in terms of technology development trend of helicopter avionics. Through this paper, it shows the current industrial and technological trend in the world rotorcraft. It proposes the strategy of international cooperated development and helicopter core technology development and the vision of Korean next generation rotorcraft for domestic rotorcraft industry.