The Sikorsky X-2 has beaten the Lynx 20+ years old speed record.
Looks like they brushed of the ABC rotor concept…
Wow, that’s really screaming! 258 mph! An AH-64 Apache can ONLY manage a meager 182 mph. Seems sluggish by comparison. Ironically, a Chinook can go 196 mph, but having ridden inside one of those rattle buckets, I’d hate to be in one when the pilot was pushing the max!
Chris
Wow! That’s awesome.
And the design puts to shame of the sci-fi concepts I’ve seen:
Man, she was scootin! Nice job Sikorsky!
That is one fast Helo.
Yeah, but they cheated and put a pusher prop on the tail, ala the Cheyenne. Very cool though and probably more economical than the the tilt rotor answer to the ‘cruise like a plane land like a copter’ problem.
Nice gunship or SAR platform, but will it scale to transports??