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Sikorsky-Boeing: the first flight of the SB>1 Defiant helicopter still slips

Technical transmission problem during a ground test

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant helicopter will not carry out its maiden flight in 2018 as expected by the two companies, but the date will postpone in the first three months of 2019. The reason why the new generation aircraft -aimed at competing with the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor to equip the US Armed Forces- will not take off, because in the course of ground tests the technicians would have identified...

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Seattle, USA, 12/13/2018 12:49
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