Rotorcraft Cost Too Much - Revisited

Robert Scott; Gerardo F. Nunez

doi:10.4050/F-0080-2024-1145

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Rotorcraft Cost Too Much - Revisited

Robert Scott, Gerardo F. Nunez, US Army DEVCOM AvMC

May 7, 2024

https://doi.org/10.4050/F-0080-2024-1145

Abstract:
The findings of the parametric Harris-Scully cost model, also known as the "Cost Too Much" model, are reviewed and re-examined using an updated database of rotorcraft surveyed from government and commercial sources. The sensitivity of flyaway cost as assessed by the updated model is compared to trends in helicopter design and economic inflation to review the recommendations made by original set of helicopter affordability analysis published between 1995 and 1998.