This video was done in 2013! In 2019, while standing outside a bank in Indiantown, Fl, I heard this whine flying overhead, and was pleasantly surprised to see this very aircraft, or same model flying overhead west bound at a pretty nice altitude, and recognized it immediately! I served as an Army Air Traffic Controller, and launched helicopters all day, everyday, and can recognize them by engine, and blade sounds alone, from 58’s, 58D’s, 47’s, 60’s, 53’s, 64’s ………..and the list goes on
Yup... Amazing would love to see this fly and watch the Sikorsky...X2. And also the Tiltrotor Agusta 609 civilian version of the Bell / Boeing Osprey V22...
"World's Fastest Helicopter." The official FAI speed record for helicopters is 400.87 km/h (249.09 mph) and was set by John Trevor Eggington with co-pilot Derek J Clews, over Glastonbury, Somerset, England on 11 August 1986 in a Westland Lynx demonstrator.
Love This Video The Sikorsky Team Designed And Built A Ultra Fast And Versatile Helicopter, Then They Tested And Retested And Then Asked Their Test Pilot To Achieve What Others Said Couldn't Be Done, Awesome Technical And Motivational Video Sikorsky!
I knew a senior engineer on that Cheyenne project. He said the Army cancelled it because the Air Force complained that they didn't want any Army helicopters flying faster than 200 knots. Above that speed was reserved for the A/F. Politics.
Finally! I had the idea of making a helicopter like this for a while. And I'm glad (and a bit frustrated to know I wasn't the first the think about it) to find this video!
On 26 July 2010, Sikorsky announced that the X2 exceeded 225 knots (259 mph; 417 km/h) during flight testing in West Palm Beach Florida, unofficially surpassing the current FAI rotorcraft world speed record of 216 knots (249 mph) set by a modified Westland Lynx in 1986
On 2 June 2013 it demonstrated a speed of 255 knots (293 mph; 472 km/h)[10][11] beating Sikorsky X2's world record, becoming the fastest compound helicopter as of June 2013.
This thing has a propellor by the looks of it. So of course, it's going to be faster. Isn't that cheating, though? As the main function of a helicopter is it's ability to hover.
"In February 2007, the "MiG-35" (actually the MiG-29M2 No. 154, a 17-year-old airframe with blue-painted fins) was officially unveiled to the world at AeroIndia 07 at the IAF's Yelahanka base. Coupled with the bright red and blue thrust-vectored MiG-29OVT, the two aircraft put up a deeply memorable show. But IAF officers who had a chance to check out the aircraft came away very unimpressed. "It is an old aircraft with a few MFDs," one of them said at the time."
Excellent aircraft! I am curious, great rotor design but are they hollow? laminair blow ports? to help lift without collective? does air get blown out the leading edges? as I recall the first X-wing the rotors stopped in flight. Does it actually have Collective pitch?
А насколько этот вертолет финансово целесообразен? или этот проект как игрушка для богатых. Оу это было 8лет назад, я и не посмотрел,интересно что в итоге стало с этой моделью.
1. как решена проблема "перехлёст лопастей"? 2. пытались ли применить "ракетный ускоритель" для экстренного увеличения скорости? например при отрыве от преследования или от ракет?
helicopters all suffer the same problem when going fast - the rotor on one side is going against the direction of travel (higher effective wind speed = higher lift), and the other side is going with (lower lift). Having two balances the lift. Doesn't eliminate the problem entirely - when going fast enough the rotor tips can either start to stall (on the slow side) or approach the sound barrier (on the fast side).
To counter act Angular Momentum. In this design a tail rotor is missing. You have a pusher rotor but that doesn't counter act the angular momentum. Hence using a co-axial rotor which uses two separate rotor, turning in opposite directions to each other helps in stabilizing the fuselage.
Sikorsky and Kamov were contemporaries in Russia. Sikorsky wanted to use a tail rotor and Kamov wanted the coaxial rotor system. sikorsky came to the US and made his helicopter with a tail rotor while Kamov stayed in Russia and kept working with the coaxial system. Now, decades later Sikorsky is using a coaxial system to get speeds they never thought possible. And Kamov is still building coaxial system helicopters. Go figure
Congatulations american people..everywhere and everytime..you first in advances and very professionals. You deserve the title; US AMÉRICA.. FIRST IN THE WORLD
The larger variants are going to change warfare as we know it. Being able to get a dozen troops into a combat zone at aircraft speeds and land vertically with door gunners is a game changer. They are also going the f35 route of having lots of cross commonality between parts which helps flight readiness a lot. The attack version is also going to be able to replace the a10 role and even expand upon it because it can hover/move side to side/backwards. This is going to really be a huge advantage on the battlefield.
Gloriosky, boyz! Someone went and reinvented the AH56 Cheyenne! I loved that old tech marvel, back when it was new. Hoping this new clone has what it takes to obtain, and maintain, funding. I'll bet it's a lot of fun to fly.
I was thinking the same thing My dad new a test pilot that flew the Cheyenne They built a RC scratch built model that is in the Las Angeles science an industry museum In the 80s Those were some fun times
how about do a Osprey styled copter with twin rotor on each sides of the wing? Sure wing cannot be as big as in Osprey but could have smaller one's in the back and in the front edge to supplement main thin wing in the middle with the shaft that join 4 rotors.
I think the V-22 does a great job of high speed and rotor craft capabilities summed up into a VTOL frame. Lets just keep it at that. I'm still in high school and don't wanna end up being a pilot who has to sit in a room to fly aircraft. But oh well, you can't stop technology from advancing. I'm sure people from the 50's didn't think much people would have cell phones, and numerous other examples.
wow looks like a lot of fun to fly very responsive. truly innovative counter rotating rotor would tend to eliminate stability issues not to mention instant lift generated. that thing sounded like it was an electric motor all we were hearing is rotor noise not engine . very cool 2 thumbs up. igor would be proud
Not just that. When the helicopter is moving forward, one side of the blades are moving against, so its actually not producing as much lift as the other side, which is moving faster. To counter this, the blade on on side is tilted as it moves toward the other side. However, if the helicopter goes to fast, then the blade angle is to steep and it stalls
Sounds like you've almost equal the speed of the Lockheed Comanche it was tested in the late 1960s and early 70s, which still to this day can out fly the Apache helicopter. And without electronic stabilization was very easy to fly and was exceedingly stable. I'm wondering if that 300 mile an hour area is the fastest a helicopter can actually go?
Mr. Hawk, you're talking about the Lockheed Cheyenne, not the Commanche. And you're right, we were cruising every day, straight and level, at those speeds. We needed a P-51 for a chase plane. I am one of the Lockheed pilots on that program.
The Bill and Kali Show It’s the saying: “you cannot reinvent the wheel”. So, how can you improve the helicopter even further? Especially when you have different helicopters doing different roles like: extinguishing wild-fires, speed, elevation, military reconnaissance, carrying soldiers, tanks, clearing debris, etc. You have a variety of helicopters doing different things and each of them is great in its own way, each has a purpose. So, you want an innovated helicopter? Me too, so, what shall be this one’s purpose? What shall this one trying to achieve? To me, it’s all about efficiency: Can we build a helicopter that can save fuel/energy consumption? Can helicopters go electric? Are they already electric? I’m sry I’m a noob. How long shall be the blades? How many blades shall we use? Shall we expand and build smaller ones to create the first pentacopter?
Сейчас крупный заказ на комплексы С400. На боевое дежурство их должно встать 56 дивизионов. Но и на данный момент с 2007 года на боевое дежурство поставлено 10 дивизионов (80 п/у). Если учесть, что каждый дивизион контролирует в диаметре 1000 км, да плюс еще на дежурство становились панцири, да еще и восстановленные С300 то получается, что граница защищена куда лучше, чем некотором хотелось бы...
there is actually a "gliding" landing, it's called autorotation. it's safer to land a helicopter with failed power than an airplane because you can set it down on a dime. pretty cool stuff.
This is faster. The Lynx that broke the first set of speed records had a rigid rotor blade system and is not the same Lynx used in the field. The X-2's record is 250 Knots The Lynx, even with it's specially designed rotor and blade system hit 216 Knots in 1986. While both aircraft are somewhat different (The X-2 having the pusher prop in the back) and the Lynx being a 'conventional' helicopter they are both quite impressive.
Alexander Mordovin, expert for combat aviation: "We have a serious problem with avionics. Unlike the US competitor, there was no serial production for the Mi-28H for a very long time. It is an open secret that the flaws, which were not noticed during the testing period, are found and removed during the process of serial production. Russia had only 16 Mi-28H helicopters before 2008. In 2011, the Russian armed forces were supposed to receive 28 Mi-28H choppers, although the serial production of
Pytanie. Jakie techniczne rozwiazanie powoduje w/w helikoptera nie obracanie? ------ Pierwsza, prawidlowa, odpowiedz' nagrodze, koszulka, z moja szachownica.
Да действительно, у меня данные на 2010 год. Это Вы с википедии начитались. Ну посмотрите там внизу есть раздел "технические проблемы" а еще посмотрите раздел "эксплуатация" там есть забавное описание как проводились учебные бои с тайфунами. Забавно, но новые виды вооружений по американский отличаются от старых только размером распиленного бюджета. XD
Watching this thing fly correlates to watching the wings of a hummingbird's prowess on steroids in smooth as melted butter mode. This machine reinvents the word "glide". The resistance of cutting through air & harnessing it for lift & thrust seem to no longer exist. I offer the next challenge to these brilliant gentlemen defeating drag completely while packaging all these physics busters into a neat little one seater priced in the $25K range driven with a hydrogen cell power train.
This video was done in 2013! In 2019, while standing outside a bank in Indiantown, Fl, I heard this whine flying overhead, and was pleasantly surprised to see this very aircraft, or same model flying overhead west bound at a pretty nice altitude, and recognized it immediately! I served as an Army Air Traffic Controller, and launched helicopters all day, everyday, and can recognize them by engine, and blade sounds alone, from 58’s, 58D’s, 47’s, 60’s, 53’s, 64’s ………..and the list goes on
Yup... Amazing would love to see this fly and watch the Sikorsky...X2. And also the Tiltrotor Agusta 609 civilian version of the Bell / Boeing Osprey V22...
It would fit in my garage!
Wow, Just Say WOW
At this time it's experimental. Will be very interesting to watch it's progress over the next ten years.
¡ que grande kamov!¡ ha !no para...
I cant wait to get one of these !!
"World's Fastest Helicopter." The official FAI speed record for helicopters is 400.87 km/h (249.09 mph) and was set by John Trevor Eggington with co-pilot Derek J Clews, over Glastonbury, Somerset, England on 11 August 1986 in a Westland Lynx demonstrator.
YOU TELL THEM...bloody yanks always think they are the first.
Which helicopter was that?
@@imranvp Didn't you read the comment?
Thank you Mr. Sikorski.
Love This Video The Sikorsky Team Designed And Built A Ultra Fast And Versatile Helicopter, Then They Tested And Retested And Then Asked Their Test Pilot To Achieve What Others Said Couldn't Be Done, Awesome Technical And Motivational Video Sikorsky!
The pusher rotor brings to mind the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne.
P180 Avanti ll also!
That's not a chopper
I knew a senior engineer on that Cheyenne project. He said the Army cancelled it because the Air Force complained that they didn't want any Army helicopters flying faster than 200 knots. Above that speed was reserved for the A/F. Politics.
@@Betterifitsfree >>> FWIW, I've always thought that *POLITICS* killed the AH-56, and NOT any performance issues.
What a load of Bollocks...!! The AH-54 did 250 Mph, 270 Mph in a dive.... while able to mount 8000kg of stores. Nice toy..
Lol in the middle of watching this video a helicopter fly's right above my house O.o
That configuration is not suppose to goes at high speed. But the goal is gamma enabled blade to use for scouting and anti mass attack
Finally! I had the idea of making a helicopter like this for a while. And I'm glad (and a bit frustrated to know I wasn't the first the think about it) to find this video!
Классная птичка!
What a beautiful machine - with unbelievable performance, OMB - wow. Go #SikorskyX2 team.
THATS alot of tracking to fallow. Great machine.one of a only a few i havent been in !! Amazing job guys. Congrats
Ooh my god what an aircraft .X2 is the corvette of the sky .
hey, its Nov 24, 2022 calling. We ain't seen this chopper yet.
I hope in the future have Copter Racing Sports
With a few small modifications I think it could easily exceed 500 km/h. He looks very promising 👍
Splendid piece of aviation novelty.
Two props and the rotor facing a different direction-wow!
Anyone else say " what the hell.." when they first saw this thing? Haha
That meeting they had looked like 5am at a seniors home. A crew full of dinosaurs!
On 26 July 2010, Sikorsky announced that the X2 exceeded 225 knots (259 mph; 417 km/h) during flight testing in West Palm Beach Florida, unofficially surpassing the current FAI rotorcraft world speed record of 216 knots (249 mph) set by a modified Westland Lynx in 1986
8 years later. Where are they?
I love Sikorsky
Super cool and great design looks like it is fast even sitting on the run way !
On 2 June 2013 it demonstrated a speed of 255 knots (293 mph; 472 km/h)[10][11] beating Sikorsky X2's world record, becoming the fastest compound helicopter as of June 2013.
This thing has a propellor by the looks of it. So of course, it's going to be faster. Isn't that cheating, though? As the main function of a helicopter is it's ability to hover.
"In February 2007, the "MiG-35" (actually the MiG-29M2 No. 154, a 17-year-old airframe with blue-painted fins) was officially unveiled to the world at AeroIndia 07 at the IAF's Yelahanka base. Coupled with the bright red and blue thrust-vectored MiG-29OVT, the two aircraft put up a deeply memorable show. But IAF officers who had a chance to check out the aircraft came away very unimpressed. "It is an old aircraft with a few MFDs," one of them said at the time."
Excellent aircraft! I am curious, great rotor design but are they hollow? laminair blow ports? to help lift without collective? does air get blown out the leading edges? as I recall the first X-wing the rotors stopped in flight. Does it actually have Collective pitch?
It should
I want it with duo turbo assisted eletric
А насколько этот вертолет финансово целесообразен? или этот проект как игрушка для богатых. Оу это было 8лет назад, я и не посмотрел,интересно что в итоге стало с этой моделью.
Looks like a gyrocopter/helicopter hybrid, nice engineering.
1. как решена проблема "перехлёст лопастей"?
2. пытались ли применить "ракетный ускоритель" для экстренного увеличения скорости? например при отрыве от преследования или от ракет?
helicopters all suffer the same problem when going fast - the rotor on one side is going against the direction of travel (higher effective wind speed = higher lift), and the other side is going with (lower lift). Having two balances the lift. Doesn't eliminate the problem entirely - when going fast enough the rotor tips can either start to stall (on the slow side) or approach the sound barrier (on the fast side).
Beautiful helicopter and wicked sounding! Love it
They build the best.
Really nice video , enjoyment, with this new project ,
To counter act Angular Momentum. In this design a tail rotor is missing. You have a pusher rotor but that doesn't counter act the angular momentum. Hence using a co-axial rotor which uses two separate rotor, turning in opposite directions to each other helps in stabilizing the fuselage.
Sikorsky and Kamov were contemporaries in Russia. Sikorsky wanted to use a tail rotor and Kamov wanted the coaxial rotor system. sikorsky came to the US and made his helicopter with a tail rotor while Kamov stayed in Russia and kept working with the coaxial system.
Now, decades later Sikorsky is using a coaxial system to get speeds they never thought possible. And Kamov is still building coaxial system helicopters. Go figure
Congatulations american people..everywhere and everytime..you first in advances and very professionals.
You deserve the title; US AMÉRICA.. FIRST IN THE WORLD
Whirlybird is awesome. Cheers!
Turn off that porn music! I want to hear that awesome sounds from the helicopter
Hii I'm from 2020
Sikorsky Make a damn Civilian version of the X2 and Raider. You know this bird will sell!!
The larger variants are going to change warfare as we know it. Being able to get a dozen troops into a combat zone at aircraft speeds and land vertically with door gunners is a game changer. They are also going the f35 route of having lots of cross commonality between parts which helps flight readiness a lot. The attack version is also going to be able to replace the a10 role and even expand upon it because it can hover/move side to side/backwards. This is going to really be a huge advantage on the battlefield.
Wow! A Sikorsky that hovers at a level attitude.
The helicopter in the television program "Airwolf" was sold when the series finished and it crashed in either bad weather or rough terrain.
Or both.
that moment in Canada when a X2 model was going for sale for $150,000
Commanche rah 66 my fave its stealth to radar
Brilliant double rotors, one spins in opposite direction so that anti-torque is taken care of.
Then back rotor just pushes it forward
Love It.
turbo electrics can be combined and passes the 4000
FWIW: This aircraft is classified as a "compound helicopter", and as such is in a different speed category than a standard helicopter.
Sikorsky would be proud.
How 'BOUT them immigrants?
i feel like i want to buy something like this tommorow
nice work
Sikorsky Sky crane is my favorite
same here so badass helicopter
2:53 Love the wig
But it makes him look so young!
streaker30 wig or not AWSOME!
Gloriosky, boyz! Someone went and reinvented the AH56 Cheyenne! I loved that old tech marvel, back when it was new. Hoping this new clone has what it takes to obtain, and maintain, funding. I'll bet it's a lot of fun to fly.
i like the concept of the Sikorsky X2
fantastic!!
Update. 0:30 It's a spectacular artefact. It has no use outside a museum...😂
Where the landing gear? That upside down tail stabilizer looks like it would interfere with landing.
its a good video.
I see that this helo gots an propeller in the tail's cone to provide speed boost... This idea existed in the ill-fated AH-56 Cheyenne
I was thinking the same thing
My dad new a test pilot that flew the Cheyenne They built a RC scratch built model that is in the Las Angeles science an industry museum
In the 80s
Those were some fun times
how about do a Osprey styled copter with twin rotor on each sides of the wing? Sure wing cannot be as big as in Osprey but could have smaller one's in the back and in the front edge to supplement main thin wing in the middle with the shaft that join 4 rotors.
Быстро летит..!!😊
Make this as big as a V22 Offsprey and replace it.
Exciting!
It hovers too . Nice !
Looks similar to the Lockheed AH-54 Cheynne from the late 1960's.
Actually this is an expansion of the Sikorsky Advancing Blade Concept(ABC) from 1973. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-69
I think the V-22 does a great job of high speed and rotor craft capabilities summed up into a VTOL frame. Lets just keep it at that. I'm still in high school and don't wanna end up being a pilot who has to sit in a room to fly aircraft. But oh well, you can't stop technology from advancing. I'm sure people from the 50's didn't think much people would have cell phones, and numerous other examples.
Superb!
wow looks like a lot of fun to fly very responsive. truly innovative counter rotating rotor would tend to eliminate stability issues not to mention instant lift generated. that thing sounded like it was an electric motor all we were hearing is rotor noise not engine . very cool 2 thumbs up. igor would be proud
Not just that. When the helicopter is moving forward, one side of the blades are moving against, so its actually not producing as much lift as the other side, which is moving faster. To counter this, the blade on on side is tilted as it moves toward the other side. However, if the helicopter goes to fast, then the blade angle is to steep and it stalls
Is that a beer cooler behind the pilots seat at 3:15? Ohh yeeeeaah she handles like a dream...*hiccup
Sounds like you've almost equal the speed of the Lockheed Comanche it was tested in the late 1960s and early 70s, which still to this day can out fly the Apache helicopter. And without electronic stabilization was very easy to fly and was exceedingly stable. I'm wondering if that 300 mile an hour area is the fastest a helicopter can actually go?
Mr. Hawk, you're talking about the Lockheed Cheyenne, not the Commanche. And you're right, we were cruising every day, straight and level, at those speeds. We needed a P-51 for a chase plane. I am one of the Lockheed pilots on that program.
@@berchmanrichard2976 nice!! You are lucky in a different way! 😅
Wow! It's within 50 knots of the V-22. Very good for a helicopter, not on the same playing field as a tiltrotor.
2:52 - Give that man an award for the funniest toupée on UA-cam!
but it goes so well with the penciled in eyebrows. His name is Blackwell after all
You dont think thats his natural color haha
Dude got hair products game.. look at that shine.. should be the spokesmodel for suave
So many engineers!
Officially it is the Westland Lynx ZB500. The X2 runs were all unofficial records but they are faster.
You never hear about helicopter innovations. This is amazing. What application? Medivac?
The Bill and Kali Show
It’s the saying: “you cannot reinvent the wheel”.
So, how can you improve the helicopter even further? Especially when you have different helicopters doing different roles like: extinguishing wild-fires, speed, elevation, military reconnaissance, carrying soldiers, tanks, clearing debris, etc.
You have a variety of helicopters doing different things and each of them is great in its own way, each has a purpose.
So, you want an innovated helicopter? Me too, so, what shall be this one’s purpose?
What shall this one trying to achieve? To me, it’s all about efficiency: Can we build a helicopter that can save fuel/energy consumption? Can helicopters go electric? Are they already electric? I’m sry I’m a noob.
How long shall be the blades?
How many blades shall we use?
Shall we expand and build smaller ones to create the first pentacopter?
Сейчас крупный заказ на комплексы С400. На боевое дежурство их должно встать 56 дивизионов. Но и на данный момент с 2007 года на боевое дежурство поставлено 10 дивизионов (80 п/у). Если учесть, что каждый дивизион контролирует в диаметре 1000 км, да плюс еще на дежурство становились панцири, да еще и восстановленные С300 то получается, что граница защищена куда лучше, чем некотором хотелось бы...
there is actually a "gliding" landing, it's called autorotation. it's safer to land a helicopter with failed power than an airplane because you can set it down on a dime. pretty cool stuff.
… and it looks very good!
The thumbs down are just angry competitors, just calm down and drink tea.
Beautiful. Thanks.
Awesome!!!!!! Where can I get one of those!
Very very high tech! wish i could have a flytrip! See if it can loop?
Please would it be possible to have a helicopter with rotor underneath and a turbine in place of the tail? It's just a curiosity.
Cool, but what size gun does it carry?
This is faster. The Lynx that broke the first set of speed records had a rigid rotor blade system and is not the same Lynx used in the field.
The X-2's record is 250 Knots
The Lynx, even with it's specially designed rotor and blade system hit 216 Knots in 1986.
While both aircraft are somewhat different (The X-2 having the pusher prop in the back) and the Lynx being a 'conventional' helicopter they are both quite impressive.
Alexander Mordovin, expert for combat aviation:
"We have a serious problem with avionics. Unlike the US competitor, there was no serial production for the Mi-28H for a very long time. It is an open secret that the flaws, which were not noticed during the testing period, are found and removed during the process of serial production. Russia had only 16 Mi-28H helicopters before 2008. In 2011, the Russian armed forces were supposed to receive 28 Mi-28H choppers, although the serial production of
damn how did they make it where that heli can go that fast?
Pytanie.
Jakie techniczne rozwiazanie
powoduje w/w helikoptera
nie obracanie?
------
Pierwsza, prawidlowa, odpowiedz'
nagrodze, koszulka, z moja szachownica.
Да действительно, у меня данные на 2010 год. Это Вы с википедии начитались. Ну посмотрите там внизу есть раздел "технические проблемы" а еще посмотрите раздел "эксплуатация" там есть забавное описание как проводились учебные бои с тайфунами. Забавно, но новые виды вооружений по американский отличаются от старых только размером распиленного бюджета. XD
Watching this thing fly correlates to watching the wings of a hummingbird's prowess on steroids in smooth as melted butter mode.
This machine reinvents the word "glide". The resistance of cutting through air & harnessing it for lift & thrust seem to no longer exist.
I offer the next challenge to these brilliant gentlemen defeating drag completely while packaging all these physics busters into a neat little one seater priced in the $25K range driven with a hydrogen cell power train.
Sheeeeeet ! If civilians had these, they'd be trying to drag race a 737 Southwest jet 👀💥💥 👽👽 Congratulations Sikorsky 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Больше. Именно что каждый второй! Можно даже просто поспрашивать у местных. Их к западу от Урала уже полно.
and how fast does it go without the push prop?