Sikorsky SB-1 flies for first time

[Commando Cody]

Originally Posted by SplineDrive

https://www.army.mil/article/252221/...ly_sb1_defiant

Army XPs flew Defiant late last year, or is this the "non-company person" piloting an X2 you're referring to?

Boy, am I embarrassed! Since Sikorsky usually puts out a triumphant press release if they successfully inflate a tire on the SB>1, I got lazy and didn't look hard enough. The 2020 situation I was referring to was in the S-97.

The referenced article refers to a September 2020 article about Army test pilots flying the V-280 that states, "Similar flights are scheduled later this year for the Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant". Well, they missed that one by nearly a year. FWIW, the first time an Army guest pilot flew the V-280 was in February, 2018, less than two months after Valor's first flight.