Originally Posted by
noneofyourbusiness
The Army probably will not go to a twin engine melt and repour.
Hold onto your butt.
Originally Posted by
noneofyourbusiness
The clutched pusher prop on Raider X is a potential problem. Sikorsky will be very careful, most of the parts in the clutch will be flight safety parts. Still, anything mechanical can fail, even if it only happens once. Unlike a Cessna where everyone knows to stay away from the prop, people will become careless because they think the prop will never be turning on the ground, until one time it is. This is insidious.
Remember that the S-97 pusher is wet clutched so it does not stop rotating. Defiant used a dry clutch to attempt to demonstrate the safety aspect of stopping it during ground ops. Unfortunately that clutch sh*t the bed and the Army knows all about it.