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Forum: Rotorheads

19th Aug 2014, 13:12

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Sikorsky + Boeing pitch ‘X-2’-based design for US Army JMR TD effort

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Posted By JohnDixson

Also

They are also taught that, once engaged in the drogue, pick it up vertically, such that an inadvertent release will result in the drogue going down, not up into the rotor.

Forum: Rotorheads

16th Aug 2014, 21:30

Replies: 85

Sikorsky + Boeing pitch ‘X-2’-based design for US Army JMR TD effort

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Posted By JohnDixson

Ken V

You posted:

"3. CG envelope for just about any aircraft is quite limited at max payload. However, CG envelope for lighter payloads is much larger on an inline tandem rotor than either a single...

Forum: Rotorheads

8th Mar 2013, 11:46

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Sikorsky + Boeing pitch ‘X-2’-based design for US Army JMR TD effort

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Posted By JohnDixson

CG Tolerance

Keesje,

A lot of people have fallen for the "obvious truth " that the tandem rotor machine will always have a huge advantage in allowable CG range.

What a surprise ( to some, not all ) when the...

Forum: Rotorheads

1st Mar 2013, 14:58

Replies: 85

Sikorsky + Boeing pitch ‘X-2’-based design for US Army JMR TD effort

Views: 35,845

Posted By JohnDixson

X2 on Static Display

Anyone heading for the Honda Classic at the PGA Resort in Palm Bch Gardens can catch the real X2 flying prototype along with an S-97 mockup parked near the end of the " Beartrap" at the 17th green.

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