Nimbi wrote;
Should the presser have read "Sikorsky plays catch-up"?
Sikorsky's Patent Application
20080145220 ~ On-blade actuator for helicopter rotor blade control flaps was filed on December 14, 2006.
This is 15 months after Eurocopter's testing.
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Sikorsky's Patent Application
20070125907 ~ Variable speed gearbox with an independently variable speed tail rotor system for a rotary wing aircraft was filed on December 02, 2005.
This is 5 months after the thread
Variable Speed Rotors and Prop(s) on PPRuNe.
Sikorsky's patent lawyer listed Nick L. as the primary inventor. A subject that was
politely discussed here. 
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Perhaps Sikorsky needs more conceptualization engineers and fewer lawyers.
