Sikorsky
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The US Navy announced that Washington has awarded Sikorsky Aircraft the contract to replace the Marine One helicopter fleet used to transport the President that will see a fleet of 21 VH92 aircraft delivered for presidential use by 2023.
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The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, in cooperation with the US Army, has announced the successful first flight of its Optionally Piloted Black Hawk (OPBH) Demonstrator helicopter, which took to the air on March 11 at Sikorsky’s Development Flight Center.
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DARPA has announced the selection of four companies to compete in the next phase of its VTOL X-Plane program. The companies are tasked with developing unmanned demonstrator aircraft designed to increase the performance of VTOL rotor aircraft while reducing their complexity.
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Eurocopter has announced a new pair of speed records set by its hybrid helicopter demonstrator, the X3.
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Boeing and Sikorsky will submit a joint proposal to build a demonstrator aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) program based on the design of Sikorsky’s X2.
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A team of 50 graduate and undergraduate students have created a human-powered helicopter that's hovered into the record books for the longest flight yet achieved in the U.S.
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Sikorsky has unveiled a virtual reality center that allows operators to immerse themselves inside the new CH-53K heavy lift helicopter to identify assembly and maintenance issues before the aircraft is built.
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Sikorsky Aircraft’s coaxial X2 Technology demonstrator has set an unofficial speed record for a helicopter by achieving the 250-knot (287.69 mph) milestone that was established as the goal of the craft from its inception.
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Sikorsky's Project Firefly sets out to both demonstrate the feasibility and showcase the benefits of electrically powered helicopters
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s X2 Technology demonstrator has achieved a speed of 181 knots in a test flight – faster than the 160-170 knot speeds generally possible with conventional helicopters.
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Conventional helicopters are incredibly useful vehicles in many short-range scenarios - but their asymmetrical aerodynamics enforce a fairly low terminal speed limit of around 150mph, making them less than ideal for longer-range missions. Tilt-rotor aircraft like the
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August 28, 2008 Three years ago we wrote of Sikorsky’s intention to build a technology demonstrator for its X2 Coaxial helicopter technology, and earlier this year