{"id":185346,"date":"2011-07-24T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/24\/sikorsky-x2-makes-final-flight-of-program\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:42:00","slug":"sikorsky-x2-makes-final-flight-of-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/24\/sikorsky-x2-makes-final-flight-of-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky X2 Makes Final Flight of Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img199.imageshack.us\/img199\/1195\/x2final.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img199.imageshack.us\/img199\/1195\/x2final.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Considering that it was developed with private money on a shoe string, the program has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/sikorsky-x2-technology-demonstrator-final-flight\/19242\/\">had some fairly remarkable accomplishments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Achieving a cruise speed in level flight of 253 kts, a record.<\/li>\n<li>Doing so while maintaining the low speed and hover performance of a conventional helicopter. (as compared to the performance of the V-22 in those areas, which is just pitiful)<\/li>\n<li>Doing so at noise and vibration levels equal to or lower than current helicopters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sikorsky will not be moving onto developing the S-97 light attack\/scout helo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering that it was developed with private money on a shoe string, the program has had some fairly remarkable accomplishments: Achieving a cruise speed in level flight of 253 kts, a record. Doing so while maintaining the low speed and hover performance of a conventional helicopter. (as compared to the performance of the V-22 in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1226,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-helicopters","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}