{"id":60790,"date":"2018-06-20T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/20\/experimental-helicopter-raider-cleared-for-full-flight-test-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:31:51","slug":"experimental-helicopter-raider-cleared-for-full-flight-test-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/06\/20\/experimental-helicopter-raider-cleared-for-full-flight-test-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental helicopter Raider cleared for full flight test program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Sikorsky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2018\/04\/20\/sikorsky-modifies-raider-helicopter-to-use-us-armys-future-engine\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">S-97 Raider<\/a> \u2014 an experimental coaxial helicopter \u2014 has met the required objectives to move forward into its full flight test program with its second prototype after the first aircraft was sidelined following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2017\/08\/03\/s-97-raider-makes-hard-landing-during-flight-test\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">a hard landing last year<\/a>, according to the company\u2019s vice president for future vertical lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second aircraft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2018\/04\/27\/s-97-raider-on-the-edge-of-returning-to-flight\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">began ground testing on April 25<\/a> at the company\u2019s West Palm Beach, Florida, facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operating the Raider for 90 minutes on Tuesday, pilots Bill Fell and John Groth completed the flight-test card, marking a \u201csignificant milestone\u201d that will allow Sikorsky to proceed with its full flight test program, Dan Spoor told Defense News in a June 20 statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe look forward to demonstrating to the U.S. military that high flight speed and extraordinary maneuverability in the hover and low-speed regimes will dramatically change the way that military aviators fly and fight with helicopters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2018\/01\/30\/future-vertical-lift-plan-poised-to-lead-army-out-of-acquisition-dark-ages\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Valor100percent.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Future Vertical Lift poised to get Army out of the acquisition dark ages<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Army is developing a digital backbone for its future family of vertical lift aircraft that could transform procurement across the service.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plans to get back into the test program appear to be happening on schedule. Sikorsky was shooting to get the helicopter back in the air in the summer and pick up where it left off with its first aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2015\/05\/22\/sikorsky-s-97-raider-achieves-first-flight\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Before the first aircraft\u2019s hard landing<\/a>, the company had been able to complete low-speed handling, and in 20 hours of flight testing, it expanded the speed envelope to 150 knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, the plan is to push the speed above 200 knots, which is the next step in achieving speeds well over that benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sikorsky believes it has solved the problem that caused the first prototype\u2019s hard landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first hard landing had nothing to do with Sikorsky\u2019s X2 coaxial technology used in both Raider and its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/03\/14\/defiant-undergoing-rigorous-testing-prior-to-first-flight-this-year\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" data-original-title=\"\" style=\"\"> SB-1 Defiant demonstrator<\/a>, which the company is building with Boeing for the Army\u2019s Joint Multi-Role demonstration. That demo will help define requirements for a Future Vertical Lift aircraft expected to fly in the 2030s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defiant is expected to fly by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/aaaa\/2018\/04\/27\/army-future-vertical-lift-team-figuring-out-how-field-a-helo-within-a-decade\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/uh-60FVL.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army\u2019s Future Vertical Lift team working out how to get a helo within a decade<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Army&#039;s Future Vertical Lift cross-functional team is looking hard at how to buy helicopters faster, perhaps within a decade.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe neighborhood of the root cause is the complex interaction between the ground, the landing gear, the flight control system and the associated pilot interactions,\u201d Chris Van Buiten, Sikorsky\u2019s vice president of technology and innovation, said in response to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report issued in September 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings required Sikorsky to make some changes to the flight-control system software to assure the same thing will never happen again, Van Buiten said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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