Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
Apparently a Sikorsky/P&W test vehicle used for ground taxi thrust tests. Airfield next to Palm Beach Raceway.
That brings me to a story one of my colleagues was telling me around 2 decades ago. He went over to Palm Beach to pick up S-76A for a UK customer as it was just finishing some flight trials there.
He was sat in one of the managers office drinking coffee, (mid morning) checking the tech manuals, chewing the fat etc when corner of his eye -some dark colored rotorcraft whizzed past the window. The lightheartedness and humor in the office went dark and the manager was visibly upset and said "you never saw that".
He said it was not a S-70 or UH-60 type arguably it could have been one of the two RAH-66 Comanche prototypes but this was in the early 90s before the Comanche flew in 96.....
Either someone in the HawkWorks forgot there was a foreign visitor in this case a Brit on site who was taking delivery of a new VIP a/c or someone forgot to mention it to the other folk on site...
cheers