Tag: Future Vertical Lift
A UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter Just Flew Without Anyone Onboard For The First Time
A modified UH-60A flew for 30 minutes without any pilots or aircrew on board during a recent test flight.
The Navy Has Begun To Hunt For Its MH-60 Seahawk Helicopter And Fire Scout Drone Replacements
The U.S. Navy is looking toward next-generation vertical-lift platforms to replace existing types starting in 2030.
We Talk Everything S-97 Raider And SB>1 Defiant With Sikorsky’s Top Program Officials
Sikorsky is betting huge on its X2 technology, but there’s still much to understand about it and how they see it as the future of vertical lift. We talked to the company’s top officials to get a better sense of how X2 technology works and their plans for deploying across a wide array of mission sets.
Here’s Our First Look At Sikorsky and Boeing’s Defiant Compound Helicopter Prototype
The rollout finally comes as the team missed its goal to get the rotary wing aircraft into the air for the first time before the end of the year.
We Talk V-280 Valor Versus V-22 Osprey With Bell’s Head Of Tiltrotor Systems
The V-280 faces stiff competition, but Bell thinks its proven pedigree and unique features will make it the star of the Future Vertical Lift tender.
US Army Says It Badly Needs A Scout Helicopter After Junking The Ones It Had
The US Army has executed its grand rotary-wing aviation restructuring plan that saw the ousting of hundreds of Bell JetRanger derivatives from service—653 airframes in total. These included the Army’s entire fleet of 187 TH-67 Creek primary trainers and the roughly 340 OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopters that performed so brilliantly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, just weeks after the final Kiowa Warriors were officially retired, the US Army is whining about how badly they need…an armed scout helicopter.
Sikorsky and Boeing Give us a Glimpse of Their New Attack Helicopter Concept
For the first time, a 3D-animated teaser shows off the proposed gunship variant of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter.
The U.S. Army’s UH-60V Brings Older Black Hawks Into the Digital Age
Upgrade program puts an all-new cockpit into aging UH-60Ls, which first entered service in the late 1980s