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S-97 Raider Test Pilots Shed Light On Aircraft Characteristics

Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

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S-97 Raider Test Pilots Shed Light On Aircraft Characteristics

Sikorsky S-97 Raider during its first flight in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The two pilots tasked with flying the experimental Sikorsky [UTX] S-97 Raider through a yearlong flight test campaign recently offered more insight into how the coaxial rotorcraft operates.Chief Pilot Bill Fell and co-pilot Kevin Bredenbeck appeared in a short video posted online June 30 in which they answered questions from the public about the operation of the aircraft.The Raider has side-arm flight controls rather than a conventional helicopter’s center stick control and side-stick collective control. But its stick controls are in…

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