Originally Posted by
The Sultan
From R&W:
The above from R&W. Knowing the goals of the program this has to be considered a major setback to both the program and a failure of the ABC concept to produce a leap forward in rotorcraft. Taken with the lack of progress on the SB-1 one has to wonder if Sikorsky would have been better off not building hardware and hope a paper proposal based on empty promises could yield a development contact. Now that they have generated real data it will be hard to put the failure Genie back in the bottle.
An article a while back had the comment from the Army stating something to the effect of “the Army knows quite a bit about the rigid coaxial configuration”... that may not be a good thing for Sikorsky and Sikorsky-Boeing.