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Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a plan [1] to develop a family of military helicopters for the United States Armed Forces. Five different sizes of aircraft are to be developed, sharing common hardware such as sensors, avionics, engines, and countermeasures. [2] The U.S. Army has been considering the program since 2004. [3]
The Bell V-280 Valor is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell Helicopter for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. [2] The aircraft was officially unveiled at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America's (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition in Fort Worth, Texas.
In January, 1949, a Hiller 360 became the first civilian helicopter to cross the United States. [2] Besides helicopters, in the year after World War II, Stanley Hiller researched a two-man rocket-jet aircraft design that took off and landed vertically, called the VJ-100, in which he tried unsuccessfully to interest the U.S. military. [3]
The US Army is working with Skyryse on the possibility of using new tech to make Black Hawks easier to fly with or without a pilot. US Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Everett Babbitt
The newest helicopters are a heavy-duty complement to Cal Fire’s fleet of 34-year-old UH-1H Super Huey helicopters, also military surplus. The Fire Hawks are able to dump more than two-and-a ...
The AVX/L3 candidate design was unveiled at the summit of the Army Aviation Association of America in April 2019. [2] The design, which AVX/L3 call the Compound Coaxial Helicopter (CCH), uses a side-by-side cockpit with main compound coaxial rotors; ducted fans at the tail provide both forward and reverse thrust. [11] [12]
The Sikorsky Raider X (stylized in all-caps as RAIDER X) (Sikorsky S-102 [1]) is a compound helicopter concept with two coaxial rotors and a single pusher propeller, designed by the Sikorsky Aircraft division of Lockheed Martin for the United States Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. The Raider X concept was announced in ...
The U.S. State Department approved a foreign military sale to Zambia of military helicopters and related logistics support for an estimated cost of $100 million, the Pentagon said in a statement ...