Thu, Jul 22, 2010
Gives Potential Buyers A Sneak Peek At X2 Technology
Sikorsky Innovations has unveiled an X2 Technology Light
Tactical Helicopter (LTH) simulator that will provide potential
customers with a tangible experience of the significant benefits of
X2 Technology.
X2 Technology combines an integrated suite of technologies to
advance the state-of-the-art, counter-rotating coaxial rotor
helicopter. It is designed to demonstrate that a helicopter can
cruise comfortably at 250 knots while retaining such desirable
attributes as excellent low-speed handling, efficient hovering, and
a seamless and simple transition to high speed. Sikorsky introduced
the X2 Technology demonstrator in 2005, and the program has been
steadily progressing through flight testing with the goal of
achieving the 250-knot speed later this year.
Among the innovative technologies the X2 Technology demonstrator
employs are fly-by-wire flight controls, counter-rotating rigid
rotor blades, hub drag reduction, active vibration control, and an
integrated auxiliary propulsion system. "The X2 LTH simulator will
demonstrate the military application of the capabilities that we
are proving out with our X2 Technology demonstrator," said Teresa
Carleton, Vice President, Mission Systems Integration. "With the
simulator, we can fly a light tactical helicopter variation of the
X2 Technology demonstrator through various mission scenarios, and
demonstrate the advantages of speed, high agility, low acoustic
signature, and low vibrations. It will be a tremendous, mobile tool
that we can bring to potential customers to give them a 'hands on'
sense of the flight and mission advantages we are bringing to the
aviation landscape."
As the simulator program progresses, it will be enhanced to
allow integration and demonstration of technologies that support
advanced mission tactics, manned-unmanned teaming, and the
optionally piloted helicopter program that Sikorsky Innovations is
developing.
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