Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing [BA] have completed a long-haul flight with their technology demonstrator for the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, flying the helicopter 700 nautical miles from West Palm Beach, Florida to Nashville, Tennessee. The two companies detailed the endurance accomplishment on Thursday ahead of next week’s Army Aviation Association of America annual conference in Nashville, where the SB>1 Defiant platform, which has informed their Defiant X coaxial rigid rotor helicopter offering for FLRAA, will be…
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