
In January, as planned, Boeing [BA] completed a series of six wind tunnel tests on a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company says could field by the end of 2028 to serve as a gap filler prior to the U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift program coming online, the company said in written response to questions from sister publication Rotor & Wing International. Unveiled last October at the Vertical Flight Society's (VFS) Helicopter Military Operations Technology…