Dr. David Jenney, formerly director of technical engineering at Sikorsky Aircraft, will be speaking at the Museum on the early history of the Advancing Blade Concept in rigid coaxial helicopters.
The event will take place on September 30 at 7:30pm at the Museum. Free admission and parking.
WPI has a nice profile of Dr. Jenney.
AeroTV takes a look at the Sikorsky X2.
Sikorsky tested its experimental X2.
"The X2 TECHNOLOGY Demonstrator is designed to establish that a helicopter can cruise comfortably at 250 knots, while retaining such desirable helicopter attributes as excellent low speed handling, efficient hovering, and safe autorotation, combined with a seamless and simple transition to high speed."
The innovative helicopter is planned to be significantly faster than existing helicopters.
"The milestone culminated more than four years of design, development and testing of the Demonstrator aircraft’s suite of technologies that are intended to advance the state-of-the-art, counter-rotating coaxial rotor helicopter."
(Image: Sikorsky)
