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Old 30th Dec 2022, 00:56
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SplineDrive
 
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Originally Posted by CTR
Your photo of the Bell Invictus is from March of 2022, and the photo of the Sikorsky Raider is from July 2022. Below is the photo of the Invictus from late July.

This was the month which both companies claimed they were 90% complete. I’ll leave it for you to be the judge of who might’ve been exaggerating.

I still gently suggest that the dark olive green rotor hub/masts in the Raider-X image are 3D printed plastic simulated parts. Real rotor masts would have bushings, inserts, mast bending instrumentation wiring, etc. and that would all not be painted the exact same color of gloss olive green. I think that’s a transmission simulator with integrated rotor hubs in that image. At about the same time, there is an image of Invictus with clear instrumentation on the mast, indicating that it’s real.
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