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It seems unfortunate that they never got to fly the X-Wing prototype in 1987, that Sikorsky program history seems to suggest that they had resolved most of the problems and were ready to go but I'd imagine the actual situation wasn't quite so rosy. Ultimately the whole concept still looks like...

I think it is more a sensing that the US Army is not comfortable with the Tilt Rotor solution.

There was. A Secretary of the Army that directed the development of a helicopter, because he did not want to mess around with new technology. There is an interesting RAND study that looked at tilt rotor and conventional rotorcraft as potential LHX platforms that looked at ten standard missions...

Abe Karem is a interesting and inspiring man! He's around for a long time and has developed the predecessors of the Predator A, what became a game changer in unmanned flight ops back then. The more recent development of the A-160 incorporated the Optimum Speed Rotor (OSD). The technological...

I vote for "Abanake"(with apologies for the spelling). Tribe from Vermont and Maine who folded after Rogers Rangers took about four shots at them. ;D On a more serious note, I think the infrastructure that Bell/Lockheed and Sikorsky/Boeing have will make them hard to beat. Frankly I cannot...

I must have missed the part where Bell stated that there were now no plans for a commercial tiltrotor ever. Err wait, that's not what was said at all (Bell even still builds the blades for the AW609). Sikorsky, on the other hand, was clear as a Bell on their newly abandoned X2 commercial...

I get exactly what you're thinking, but I was thinking of the Sikorsky FARA design as more of a Little Bird replacement. I definitely see both of them being used by SOCOM depending on the mission.

One idea a lot of people operate from is that X2 is as mature a technology as Tilt-Rotor. The spanner in the works is that so far what they've done with it and what they've achieved is not as much as has been expected. I'm assuming, prematurely maybe, that Bell will be one of the final two for...

Sikorsky has the advantage that come next year they will actually have something flying, while FVL-Heavy and FTH are just paper products, especially the latter. Given that FVL-Heavy isn't even supposed to come on line until 2035. Now FVL-Heavy is part of the family that will have performance...

Karem's swiveling tail rotor concept was proposed for FARA... For FLRAA they proposed a tilt rotor. Neither of them was selected.

True. I wouldn't bet against either with my own money. For that matter, I also wouldn't bet against an H-60 derivative with advanced turbines engines and an upgraded dynamic system possibly derived from the new S-92B.

I have always been led to believe that things scale down better than up, at least with rotorcraft. Also if I recall correctly Sikorsky left the X2 for the Ultra-Heavy Lift mission and went back to looking at variable diameter tilt rotor tech that they had explored earlier. I could be wrong...

What's particularly (and pleasantly) interesting to me is that at this stage three of the four teams are considering Tilt-Rotor.

That picture of the BAT brings back memories. As a young Lieutenant of the Air Cavalry I made a trip to Ft. Worth and actually got to touch the mock up. I used to have a picture of me and some of my buddies standing next to it with huge grins on our faces because we had visions of actually...

First and foremost: I'm no engineer, just an avid enthousiast of the strange and little known. I also have gut feelings about designs wether or not they are likely to work, especially in tactical situations. The fold TR rotor seems like a very complex and costly ( in terms of development)...

Hi RipSteakface! I don't have much on it unfortunately, the totality of the information I could find is courtesy of Yasotay. It appears to have been a low-observable tiltrotor concept studied by Sikorsky and called CLVA. You can read Yasotay's posts about it here and here. Bagera3005 drew an...

In all Honesty, I do really think that Defiant configuration had its chances. However, the end result, as offered by Sikorsky, was just too botched. Instead of wining, LM should turn toward the foreign market and partners with other primes to make it viable on an other program. Then, in a...

Certainly possible. But as of this point in time the Defiant is more on the wild side than the Valor simply because there's so much more experience with Tilt-Rotor. That's why the Raider is so vitally important to the success and acceptance of the X2 concept. Myself, I'm gonna stick with it's...

Artist's impression of Sikorsky TRAC (Telescoping Rotor Aircraft) Rotor system in which the rotor diameter could be decreased up to 60%. TRAC system intended to be applied to any VTOL that uses rotors for lift (i.e. compound helicopter and tiltrotor). In this design, the rotors would tilt for...