heres-our-first-look-at-sikorsky-and-boeings-defiant-compound-helicopter-prototype

Wow, SSgt (Join to see) Long time no see on RallyPoint or maybe you just don't tag me anymore Nathan - great article - I love Helicopters and wanted to be a pilot at one time, but choice another path, but back in the day I had some really good times in the Aviation Unit! 1977 - 1980

SSgt (Join to see) wow, a game-changer my friend, good read/share.

Lockheed Martin, of which Sikorsky is now a part, released pair of pictures of the Defiant, which presently carries the U.S. civil registration code N100FV, along with a brief official statement on Dec. 26, 2018. The SB>1 is set to go head-to-head with Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor tilt-rotor, which you can read about in more detail here, as part of the U.S. Army's Joint Multi-Role (JMR) technology demonstration program. This project, in turn, will help inform the requirements for "medium" segment of the larger Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, which is seeking replacements for its UH-60 Black Hawk transport helicopters and AH-64 Apache gunships.


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I had the opportunity to fly with the 54th HS out of Minot a couple of times, and I instantly fell in love with the Huey. It made me wish that I had paid attention to the lines on my LES way back in the day that said there was a bonus for aerial gunners and flight engineers. This was a very interesting read, and I really hope that we get something that will be as reliable as the old birds (when you are flying in a bird that is older than anyone on the crew... you know that thing is durable).