{"id":187665,"date":"2011-04-09T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/09\/sikorsky-x2-wins-collier-trophy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T01:54:00","slug":"sikorsky-x2-wins-collier-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/09\/sikorsky-x2-wins-collier-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky X2 Wins Collier Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/5868\/8fb017e6628046dcbe1b30b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img132.imageshack.us\/img132\/5868\/8fb017e6628046dcbe1b30b.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Demonstrator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img851.imageshack.us\/img851\/4717\/725429e3a1a148b390c0b9c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img851.imageshack.us\/img851\/4717\/725429e3a1a148b390c0b9c.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>Commercial variant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img402.imageshack.us\/img402\/5361\/ca12bbb0e95648cbbfe0879.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img402.imageshack.us\/img402\/5361\/ca12bbb0e95648cbbfe0879.png\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>Assault and utility<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img690.imageshack.us\/img690\/3553\/d4e691b5c00a4a28a6e5290.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img690.imageshack.us\/img690\/3553\/d4e691b5c00a4a28a6e5290.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>Search and rescue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img819.imageshack.us\/img819\/742\/375a77ad344145ae84461f7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img819.imageshack.us\/img819\/742\/375a77ad344145ae84461f7.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>Attack<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The award of what is arguably  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/aviation_week\/on_space_and_technology\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3Aa68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9cPost%3Ae6c2886e-d967-4972-b8e7-bfe6ed3fb88e\">the most prestigious award in aerospace<\/a> is well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>They have validated that their advancing blade concept helicopter can work, and work without the workload or vibration issues that bedeviled its predecessor in the 1980s, and they have done so on a relative shoestring.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to have most of the advantages, and none of the disadvantages of tilt-rotor technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Demonstrator Commercial variant Assault and utility Search and rescue Attack The award of what is arguably the most prestigious award in aerospace is well deserved. They have validated that their advancing blade concept helicopter can work, and work without the workload or vibration issues that bedeviled its predecessor in the 1980s, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1226,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-helicopters","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187665"}],"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=187665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}