"Sikorsky S-97 Raider Achieves First Flight" Topic

"The Sikorsky S-97 Raider hit an important milestone Friday with the successful first flight of its experimental rotorcraft.

The S-97, with two pilots, took off at the company's West Palm Beach, Fla., facility about 7 a.m. and performed all of its proscribed movements over roughly an hour. The flight test took on the basics — among them three take-offs and landings, and movements in all cardinal directions at 10 knots — before more advanced tests over the year.

"This was, we feel, a really spectacular day for Sikorsky and aviation in general," said Mark Miller, Sikorsky's vice president for research and engineering. "It's not every day you have a first flight, and when you add on top of that a very differentiated, new and compelling product like the S-97 Raider, it makes it even more special…"
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Armand

Yep, the Press and Spellcheck strike again. PROscribed = forbidden, PREscribed = required. They really need to give these guys a dictionary, and education or both.

So the report claims that the helicopter took an hour to do every thing it was not supposed to do :-P

(smile)

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Armand

It's stuff like that why I love the book "Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded."

will be interesting to see how the FVL program ends up..