{"id":194661,"date":"2008-08-30T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/30\/sikorskys-abc-helo-flies\/"},"modified":"2008-08-30T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T11:40:00","slug":"sikorskys-abc-helo-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/30\/sikorskys-abc-helo-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky&#8217;s ABC Helo Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And earlier than expected, reports were that it wasn&#8217;t to leave the ground until sometime in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/27\/315257\/sikorskys-x2-speedster-completes-first-flight.html\">made a 30 minute test flight<\/a> (also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A7dcc35c6-969b-4f73-b049-920abb23b88c\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This was a fairly conservative flight, basic maneuvering with the tail propulsor shut down, as can be seen in the pics.<\/p>\n<p>They plan to expand the envelope to a speed of 250kts, and then make a decision as to whether to manufacture helos with the technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20372800\/332227323.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20372800\/332227336.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/20372800\/332227348.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And earlier than expected, reports were that it wasn&#8217;t to leave the ground until sometime in 2009. In any case, it made a 30 minute test flight (also see here). This was a fairly conservative flight, basic maneuvering with the tail propulsor shut down, as can be seen in the pics. They plan to expand &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-194661","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\/194661"}],"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=194661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}