Category Archives: HELICOPTER
X2 TECHNOLOGY™ demonstrator
Product Innovation Historically, vertical flight has required a compromise between hover performance and forward speed. If you look at efficiency vs. speed image on the right; the desired helicopter attributes (good hover efficiency, low speed controllability, low downwash, hover endurance) fall to the left of the plot. High disk loading aircraft such as Harriers and [...]
Fastest Helicopter on Earth
Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record By THOMAS LAWRENCE, DAVID JENNEY / SEPTEMBER 2010 Photo: Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Speed demon: Sikorsky’s X2 experimental helicopter is, unofficially, the fastest on Earth. To paraphrase helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky: If you’re in trouble, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can save your life. It can [...]
Aviation spirit and the Bolivian Helicopter Rev.00
By David Mercado After being lost for nearly an hour in the north of El Alto, a city at 3,800 meters (12,467 ft) above sea level and one of the poorest and fastest growing in Latin America, we arrived at the home of Jaime Cancari. Jaime and his sons Hugo and Franklin, who like most [...]
The Fastest Helicopter on Earth
Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record By Thomas Lawrence, David Jenney To paraphrase helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky: If you’re in trouble, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can save your life. It can deftly maneuver through tight spots and alight in remote places. It can float next to [...]
Hotelicopter
A great idea financed with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars….creates lots of aerospace jobs…sadly the Chinese beat us to it again and they make it cheaper, better, bigger and in more colors…and no delays…take that Boeing! Read more: http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2010/07/hotelicopter_-_a_hotel_in_a_helicopter.html#ixzz17xWXWEnX
X2 Technology™ Demonstrator Achieves 225 Knots, Sets New Top Speed for Helicopter – Target Milestone of 250 Knots Looms in Q3 2010
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s X2 Technology™ demonstrator today unofficially broke the speed record for rotorcraft, achieving a maximum speed of 225 knots in a one-hour test flight at the Development Flight Center. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). X2 Technology demonstrator Chief Pilot Kevin Bredenbeck executed the successful [...]
Boeing Secures All Rights to AgustaWestland AW101 for US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program
RIDLEY PARK, Pa., June 7, 2010 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program. This license will give Boeing full intellectual property, data and production rights for the aircraft in [...]
