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Sikorsky: FARA prototype 90% complete, learning from S-97 Raider’s flying data

Sikorsky: FARA prototype 90% complete, learning from S-97 Raider’s flying data
Sikorsky: FARA prototype 90% complete, learning from S-97 Raider’s flying data

“If we didn’t have an S-97, we’d have to wait another year-plus to be able to fly those data points and to inform our production design,” said Sikorsky’s chief engineer for the company’s Raider-X FARA offering.

Sikorsky Be Nimble: S-97 Raider Shows Off For Army FARA

Sikorsky Be Nimble: S-97 Raider Shows Off For Army FARA
Sikorsky Be Nimble: S-97 Raider Shows Off For Army FARA

Flying sideways, backwards, in pirouettes, and in a markedly quiet stealth mode, the hybrid helicopter-turboprop demonstrated the maneuverability the Army considers essential to survive high-tech future battles with Russia or China.

Sikorsky: S-97 Raider Is Safe At Any Speed

Sikorsky: S-97 Raider Is Safe At Any Speed
Sikorsky: S-97 Raider Is Safe At Any Speed

The company is confident that there is no inherent flaw in the design. Instead, they say, there was a software error that would have hamstrung any aircraft — and that error won’t happen again.

Sikorsky Unveils S-97 Raider: Road To FVL?

Sikorsky Unveils S-97 Raider: Road To FVL?
Sikorsky Unveils S-97 Raider: Road To FVL?

The company that built the first workable helicopter rolled out a (potential) revolution in chopper technology yesterday: Sikorsky’s high-speed S-97 Raider. A year ago, Sikorsky made a splash at the huge Association of the US Army conference with just a life-size mock-up. Now, just in time to talk it up at AUSA 2014, they’ve built a working…

Raider-X: Sikorsky’s Supersized S-97 For Army Scout

Raider-X: Sikorsky’s Supersized S-97 For Army Scout
Raider-X: Sikorsky’s Supersized S-97 For Army Scout

Sikorsky says their Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft design will fly faster, with bigger weapons, than archrival Bell’s. Bell says theirs will be cheaper and more reliable.

FVL: Sikorsky Shows Off S-97 Scout Chopper For Army

FVL: Sikorsky Shows Off S-97 Scout Chopper For Army
FVL: Sikorsky Shows Off S-97 Scout Chopper For Army

The S-97 Raider is Sikorsky’s proto-prototype for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. It’s competing with the Bell 360 Invictus — but unlike the S-97, the 360 isn’t flying yet.

Fly The Deadly Skies With Raider-X

Fly The Deadly Skies With Raider-X
Fly The Deadly Skies With Raider-X

Only one contender for the Army’s future scout is derived from an aircraft that’s actually flown. Guess which?

What’s In A Name? Is Sikorsky’s S-97 A Helicopter?

What’s In A Name? Is Sikorsky’s S-97 A Helicopter?
What’s In A Name? Is Sikorsky’s S-97 A Helicopter?

WASHINGTON: When is a helicopter not a helicopter? The question arises because Sikorsky Aircraft’s new S-97 Raider got airborne for the first time the other day and company officials all but declared the dawn of a new age in aviation — or at least the birth of a new type of aircraft. “This was, we…

Sikorsky Offers S-97 For Armed Aerial Scout Without Flying

AUSA: Visitors to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s display at this year’s Association of the United States Army meetings in Washington can hardly miss an eye-popping marketing video the company is showing. Running on a huge flat screen hung at the entrance to the company’s spot on the show floor, the video uses simulation imagery of XBox…

Future Vertical Lift: SB>1 Defiant Flight Delayed Until Early 2019

Future Vertical Lift: SB>1 Defiant Flight Delayed Until Early 2019
Future Vertical Lift: SB>1 Defiant Flight Delayed Until Early 2019

While Bell’s rival V-280 uses tiltrotor technology, proven in widespread service on the V-22 Osprey since 2007, the Defiant uses Sikorsky’s revolutionary compound helicopter technology, which promises superior agility — but which has only actually flown in two experimental aircraft, the X2 and S-97 Raider, both of which are much smaller than Defiant.

Bell and Leonardo eye NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability concept award

Bell and Leonardo eye NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability concept award
Bell and Leonardo eye NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability concept award

NGRC requirements mainly cover a future medium lift helicopter that costs no more than €35 million ($38.2 million) per aircraft and provisionally planned to enter service between 2035 and 2040.

Army’s FARA-destined future helicopter engine passes first test

Army’s FARA-destined future helicopter engine passes first test
Army’s FARA-destined future helicopter engine passes first test

After delays, the ITEP engine will start preliminary flight rating testing in the fall and the Army plans to make it available to FARA prototypes by November.

Sikorsky offers first glimpse of FARA entry, now 85% complete

Sikorsky offers first glimpse of FARA entry, now 85% complete
Sikorsky offers first glimpse of FARA entry, now 85% complete

The company has also built a second fuselage to assist in risk reduction for Increment One.

‘Come In Low’: Army Aviation Modifies Training To Prepare For Rivals Like Russia, China

‘Come In Low’: Army Aviation Modifies Training To Prepare For Rivals Like Russia, China
‘Come In Low’: Army Aviation Modifies Training To Prepare For Rivals Like Russia, China

“We’re going to be flying in lower flight profiles than we have over the last 20 years in counterinsurgency operations and so, even today, we are changing the way we train Army aviators,” said Maj. Gen. David Francis.

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