{"id":199695,"date":"2007-07-05T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/picture-piasecki-flies-x-49a-speedhawk-compound-helicopter-03-07-2007-washington-dc-flightglobal-com\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:49:00","slug":"picture-piasecki-flies-x-49a-speedhawk-compound-helicopter-03-07-2007-washington-dc-flightglobal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/05\/picture-piasecki-flies-x-49a-speedhawk-compound-helicopter-03-07-2007-washington-dc-flightglobal-com\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURE: Piasecki flies X-49A SpeedHawk compound helicopter-03\/07\/2007-Washington DC-Flightglobal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FWIW, the counter-torque is done with rudders in the propulsion propeller.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that allowing the main wing to pivot might allow for greater hover capability.<\/p>\n<p>Neat stuff though.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/03\/215329\/picture-piasecki-flies-x-49a-speedhawk-compound-helicopter.html\">PICTURE: Piasecki flies X-49A SpeedHawk compound helicopter<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Graham Warwick<\/p>\n<p>Piasecki Aircraft has flown the X-49A experimental compound helicopter for the first time. The modified Sikorsky YSH-60F, with wings and tail-mounted variable-thrust ducted propeller (VTDP), made the 15min flight on 30 June at Boeing\u2019s Wilmington, Delaware test centre.<\/p>\n<p>The first flight involved hovering, pedal turns and slow forwards and sideways flight using the Piasecki-designed VTDP for anti-torque, directional and trim control, says vice-president John Piasecki.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img444.imageshack.us\/img444\/1012\/getassetnk4.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FWIW, the counter-torque is done with rudders in the propulsion propeller. I&#8217;m thinking that allowing the main wing to pivot might allow for greater hover capability. Neat stuff though. PICTURE: Piasecki flies X-49A SpeedHawk compound helicopterBy Graham Warwick Piasecki Aircraft has flown the X-49A experimental compound helicopter for the first time. The modified Sikorsky YSH-60F, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199695"}],"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=199695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}