1940 ? 2010: Brief history of hybrid helicopters around ... - Eurocopter
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All Rights Reserved American Helicopter Society Summer 2006 vertiflite<br />
2008 X2: Sikorsky, USA<br />
• Technological demonstrator for the Sikorsky ABC rotor, subsequent to the XH-<br />
59A<br />
• Two 8-meter-diameter ABC counter-rotating four-bladed rotors<br />
• One six-bladed pusher propeller<br />
• One 1340 kW LHTEC T-800 turbo-shaft engine, driving the rotors and the pusher<br />
propeller<br />
• Maximum weight: 3,600 kg<br />
• Maiden flight on August 27, 2008, at the hands <strong>of</strong> K. Bredenbeck<br />
• On September 15, <strong>2010</strong>, the X2 reached a speed <strong>of</strong> 250 kt.
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