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Video: Sikorsky unveils next generation helicopter
AP, The Globe & Mail ^
| Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011
| AP, The Globe & Mail
Posted on 04/26/2011 12:27:33 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
Sikorsky unveils next generation helicopter Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 11:52AM EDT Sikorsky is hoping to sell the Pentagon on some new technology it says will allow for faster, more agile attack helicopters.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: helicopter; sikorsky; x97raider
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Hopefully, this time the Pentagon will give this Sikorsky a fair evaluation, not like it's predecessor, the ABC, Advancing Blade Concept of the 1970's http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/sik_s-69.php or the original Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk (yep, a Sikorsky attack helo design) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-67_Blackhawk. The Soviet Mil-24 Hind was probably a rip-off of the S-67.
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:29:36 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
To: BwanaNdege
Seems like UAVs fill this same niche, cheaper and without endangering pilots, who are also expensive.
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:37:26 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
To: BwanaNdege
The Mi-24 was developed from the Mi-8 and conceived as a sort of flying IFV.
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:44:27 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: BwanaNdege
Hind was probably a rip-off of the S-67...
so this one isn’t the upcoming 250 knot counter-rotator with the pusher-prop tail?
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:47:37 PM PDT
by
flowerplough
(Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; sukhoi-30mki
UAVs aren’t very good at delivering troops at 10,000 ft
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:48:22 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 824 of our national holiday from reality. - What 3 AM phone call?)
To: BwanaNdege
I wish the had a pilot-optional config 4 super hi-endurance missions.
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:51:47 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: null and void
Doesn’t look big enough to hold very many troops.
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posted on
04/26/2011 12:58:44 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
To: flowerplough
Sorry, I was talking about two different helos. This video is the upcoming 250 knot counter-rotator with the pusher-prop tail.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:04:39 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
To: Army Air Corps
Mil-24 (Sikorsky S-67 ripoff) was developed from the
Mil-8 (Sikorsky SH-3/S-61 ripoff) which grew out of the
Mil-4 (Sikorsky H-19 and later H-34 ripoff)
Hey, at least they had good taste!
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:08:46 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
According to the video they are going to make a larger version for that, this one being a necessary step in that direction.
Apparently our current inventory limits us to about half of Afghanistan, the new one with the higher ceiling will allow us to drop troops on 98% of the Afghan turf.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:09:25 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 824 of our national holiday from reality. - What 3 AM phone call?)
To: BwanaNdege
Is it just me, or does Sikorsky’s latest offering look and act a heck of a lot like their recently failed ‘Cherokee’ project from the 1990s?
Jut askin’.
Jack.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:11:46 PM PDT
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Oh, and I agree with your assessment, UAVs are better for most uses.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:14:17 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 824 of our national holiday from reality. - What 3 AM phone call?)
To: BwanaNdege
I remember seeing the S-69 ABC do a fly over at the family day air show sometime in the 70’s. I also have or had pictures of the S-67 Blackhawk doing a loop over Long Island sound. Really cool aircraft.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:20:55 PM PDT
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: Jack Deth
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:30:56 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Jack Deth
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
To: Jack of all Trades
I was up at the Sikorsky factory back in the 70’s on a visit pertaining to the CH-53D. While there, they gave me the Grand Tour of the ABC.
It had THREE swashplates! One for each rotorhead and a third on the BOTTOM of the transmission to vary the relationship between the two main swashplates to give the helo YAW control!
Wild!
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:40:42 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("If we don't stand for something, we shall fall for anything" - Peter Marshall)
To: BwanaNdege
New technology?
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:41:26 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(When it comes to Obama's birth certificate. Trust, but verify.)
To: BwanaNdege
My Father worked in propulsion engineering. He worked on the Blackhawk, the Black Hawk, and he put the third engine in the CH-53. Kind of wish I had made my career there too.
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posted on
04/26/2011 1:47:12 PM PDT
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: McGruff
I saw the Sikorsky helicopters in 1944-45 in Conn. I called them ``Big Bugs``
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