Actually on the last flight the X2 did some hovering maneuvers. At one time it stood on it's tail in a stable hover with the nose 20 degrees high and turned. And on another to about 15 degrees and then it hung on the tail in a hover with the nose about 10 degrees nose down. The prop on the X2 Demonstrator has only -6 degrees negative prop pitch available where on the S97 Raider it will have about -20 degrees negative prop pitch available for getting the nose down in a hover even further. Pretty cool final approach was made from about 200 kts over the fence using a very agressive level deceleration from 150 kts to hover. Shame this final flight posted video didn't show all it did. Once all the video gets processed i hope Sikorsky will release more from that last flight. Truly amazing and impressive demonstration! Let's hope Sikorsky can capaitalize on what this X2 program accomplished and keep moving rotor wing aviation even further forward into the future!