The Pulse of the Helicopter Industry — verticalmag.com

The S-97 Raider (background) is the first aircraft to evolve from Sikorsky’s X2 technology demonstrator. The industry-funded development program is making good progress, Sikorsky said. Sikorsky is partnering with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works on the DARPA VTOL X-Plane program. Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76, SARA, has been doing progressively more flying in obstacle-rich environments. Sikorsky’s Chris Van Buiten said the Raider’s flight control architecture should lend itself well to autonomy applications.

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