Some pictures of Diana and Myself, where we now live and places around us, things that we find interesting, amusing or just plain weird!
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Could This Become The Fastest Military,
helicopter so far?
named the Sikorsky’s
S-97 Raiderit has a feature
that helps it along, the Raider turns the standard helicopter’s normal balancing tail
rotor perpendicular, making it a much faster pusher propeller, rotors are
great for maneuverability, and they allow for a much smaller landing surface
than the runways required by fixed-wing planes, but helicopters often suffer
from slow speed, the Raider features two rotors on top, spinning in opposite directions to counter
each other’s torque, and the tail propeller provides forward momentum, with this
set up, the X-2 set an unofficial helicopter speed record by flying
258 mph in 2010, the Raider is, by and large, the
production version of the X-2, tweaked and armed for military customers, in addition to two pilots, the Raider can carry up to six
troops with gear inside, letting it both scout out enemy positions and then add
troops to the fight, the troop capacity of the Raider is about half that of theSikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, one of the Army’s main troop carriers, and a lot less than that of
the shape-changing V-22 Osprey, but it falls nicely between them both in speed,
as an asideat a maximum speed of 315km/h, (195 mph), the CH-47F Chinook
is the world's fastest military helicopter, manufactured by Boeing Defense,
Space & Security.
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