{"id":197163,"date":"2008-02-26T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/26\/sikorskys-reveals-successor-to-its-abc-concept\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T01:43:00","slug":"sikorskys-reveals-successor-to-its-abc-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/26\/sikorskys-reveals-successor-to-its-abc-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikorsky\u2019s REveals Successor to It&#8217;s ABC Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s, Sikorsky had a test aircraft that they called the ABC (Advancing Blade Concept) helicopter.  It used a coaxial rotor, and offloaded the retreating blades to eliminate retreating blade stall (as a helicopter goes faster, the blade going backwards goes more slowly relative to the air stream).<\/p>\n<p>Sikorsky unveiled its successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ainonline.com\/news\/single-news-page\/article\/cloak-comes-off-sikorskys-sleek-x2-test-aircraft\/?no_cache=1&amp;cHash=fce4049186\">the X2 test aircraft at Heli-Expo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img153.imageshack.us\/img153\/91\/5ebedfd003ru6.jpg\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s certainly a lot cleaner and more developed than its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>It also promises performance close to that of a tilt-rotor with the low speed handling and auto rotation of a helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s, Sikorsky had a test aircraft that they called the ABC (Advancing Blade Concept) helicopter. It used a coaxial rotor, and offloaded the retreating blades to eliminate retreating blade stall (as a helicopter goes faster, the blade going backwards goes more slowly relative to the air stream). Sikorsky unveiled its successor, the X2 &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-197163","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\/197163"}],"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=197163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}