Coaxial-Rotor Demonstrator Flies

Credit: SIKORSKY
Sikorsky is on track to demonstrate the X2 Technology’s 250-kt. maximum speed late in the third quarter of 2009 after flying the coaxial-rotor helicopter prototype for the first time Aug. 27 at its rapid-prototyping facility at Horseheads, N.Y. Handling of the sidestick-controlled fly-by-wire...

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