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Sikorsky, Boeing Detail Full FLRAA Mission Profile Flight Test With Defiant Demonstrator

Sikorsky, Boeing Detail Full FLRAA Mission Profile Flight Test With Defiant Demonstrator
Sikorsky-Boeing’s SB>1 Defiant during a full mission profile flight test. Photo: Sikorsky-Boeing.

Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing [BA] on Tuesday detailed a recent full mission profile flight test with its technology demonstrator for the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, to include conducting low-level flight and confined-area landings. The Jan. 5 demonstration with Sikorsky-Boeing’s SB>1 Defiant platform, informing the companies’ Defiant X coaxial rigid rotor helicopter offering for FLRAA, also included reaching a speed of 236 knots and conducting 60-degree banked turns. “We fully demonstrated DEFIANT’s ability to execute the FLRAA…

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