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  • so , no one knows how much it costs?

    Guess I'll have to call them!

  • Wadsworth Constant applies here.

  • 460 km/h "cruise mode"?!

    damn, I WANT ONE!

    Really now, what would be the price for one able to cruise at 250 kts?

  • Nice toy for millionaires no more.

  • So when do we get a RC version of this??? lol. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to do since most 3 and 4 channel RC helicopters employ the dual main rotor design.

  • ну и шляпа.

  • its a cross bread of a plane n helicopter. im making an r/c version of this 4 my science project

  • wow, awesome technology - helicopter, which levitate with almost not moving blades.

  • @cutiknet it only looks that way because the frame rate of the camera is matching up with the rotational speed of the blades. Merely a cinematic illusion.

  • @cutiknet Uh, no... the blades are spinning incredibly fast, the camera's framerate just distorts it so that it looks like it's spinning slowly. Same reason why car rims look slow when a car is going fast.

  • @dpcnull it's called temporal aliasing

  • Wow ! Very nice! 

  • Very nice!

  • Airwolf, eat your heat out!

    

  • I know they run choppers on piston engines. but I was wondering. if they put air intakes like on the side of an F1 car on either side of this thing. could they run a V6 in place of the turbine. then you could run it on unleaded. I could literally park that thing in my backyard with room to spare. and roll it into my garage.

  • Looks like a blimp

  • The real life Airwolf :p

  • No autorotation for this one..

  • Bad ass.

  • They need a better camera, and someone should fire the company DJ, he's not so useful.... -__-

  • Im still impress how fast americans made prototyps..

    There must be not realy funny inside cobine,Pilot say "wow that was amazing" and voice is shacing the same as his body) Lmao.

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  • Looks a little weird, but we'll get used to it when it halves the trip and lands on a dime. Wonder where the tilt-rotor fits into this picture? Obsolete? Wonder what price point they'll be aiming for?

  • Awesome!!! Great job Sikorsky. Stay in the lead, like you always do...

  • The lettering "X2" has the subtle Russian style...like Sukhoi. I guess that is the tradition of Sikorsky.

  • in 70 years we will have our own UFO

    :D

  • @mercanaries3 hel yeah we beat aliens xD

  • badass

  • They already downed 36 billion on Comanche, now they will build another tiny chopper which will turn out to have a too tiny hull to accomodate all the gizmos and weapons. As usually. this will be a joke chopter if compared to real choppers like- Ka 92 or Mil x1.

  • @unatics This is a tech demonstrator. Its only purpose is to test the compound coaxial rotor system, which will no doubt be integrated into progressively larger aircraft.

  • Music track was rather repetitive and monotonous.

  • pretty average if compared to russian choppers. This is tiny, with no retractable gears, can take no additional load,. What is the purpose of it, just to demonstrate technology that russians had decades ago? American flying machines are becoming smaller and smaller, and new products are created more enad more rarely. Designwise also average.

  • @unatics dude it broke the helicopter world speed record. kinda "new" technology that the russians "didn't have decades ago"

  • @unatics design average ??????? WTF ?????? sorry i realise you are of course an aeronautical engineer yourself aren you !!

  • Looks like a possible replacement for the Osprey that keeps having problems. Bring the two rotors in and stack them, then use a separate rotor to propel forward.

  • @Calidris0 The problems with the Osprey have been fixed. Plus this is a tiny helicopter compared to the Osprey.

  • @zingerkid Granted this helicopter is tiny, but could the technology be used on a larger craft. I know the Osprey is MORE stable than it was originally, but has it been completely fixed -- as in to the point where a similar design could be used for passengers? It could sure solve a lot of "short runway" problems in the third world.

  • Retreating blade stall not a problem on a co-axial i guess, very nice.

  • Great!!!

  • Good video and great accomplihment..but that headache music/noise was abnoxious to say the least.

  • Good, this will make sure we win the battle of LA.

  • I heard them report 700 ft. per. min., somehow I thought it would of been per sec. 700 ft. per min.just doesn't seem right, but then i could very well be totally wrong, if so didn't mean anything by it, just courous is all.

    This is some kind of machine, very impressive.

  • @newscruzer1 Climb rate not airspeed.

  • @newscruzer1 definitely feet per minute... 700 feet per second would be 42,000 feet per minute, which isn't unachievable... for a fighter jet or spacecraft lol

  • I'm french and I love USA and USA technology especially in aviation subjects. I finished my career as an instructor on Boeing, Douglas and Airbus aicraft (not Tristar pardon me) and retiered presently. Many thanks for this beautiful video

  • So, two contra-rotating coaxial rotors, can do away with the tail rotor. Then a prop is used for forward propulsion.

    Seems like a cross between a helicopter and autogyro.

  • It can't lift anything but DAMN!!!!! THAT'S SWEET!!!!!

  • Fantastic job Sikorsky. What beautiful lines and grace. Would adding short stubby wings like on the Bell 222 give any added benefit to the aircraft as far as lift or stability? While it looks like you are right on with the design just an observation to enhance speed with stability may be achieved like the wing fairings of a jet.

    Again outstanding work Sikorsky

    Wayne

  • @TennesseeJimmie, @psyclistic and @caspia99 who think the track sucks, I strongly disagree! I think this track is awesome! I also think they did a great job at keeping the sound at the right levels so you can hear what the tower and pilot are saying, and when there is radio silence, the track wasn't turned up too high. If you agree, thumbs up!

  • Outstanding, great job Sikorsky X2 Team.

  • Unfortunately this Sikorsky approach is to expensive. The X3 Eurocopter is advancing quickly and reaching extreme stability and success in it`s latest test flights. The X3 is a much!! less costly approach. At the end of the day it`s all about prices. That`s why Eurocopter is now the biggest helicopter producer on the planet. They understand markets. The Sikorsky looks very cool though. Great job to the teams working on this.

  • the rotors are so trippy 0_o

  • waht this name of the music

  • Thats awesome!!

    Sikorsky is truly the worlds best helicopter desighners!

  • The sound of "music" so distracting and irritating that I just could not watch to the end. It was no sense to watch it with no narrator. This is the worst soundtrack that I ever heard. I love the proposal of Mr/Ms TennesseeJimmie who post a comment under this video. Guys, let do it!!! Where is the creator of this video? I do not want even forward this video to my friends because of this soundtrack.

  • The Bell 533 & Lockheed did better & had more seats In the 06s & 70s, What you said? Igor would slap you silly.

  • 260KTS = almost 300MPH!

  • How fast is 250 KTS in MPH?

  • @lst1195  287 mph

  • @kkoolboy1014 another 60mph and they'll match airwolf!

  • @lst1195 Multiply KTS by 1.15 to get MPH.

  • And arguing on the internet continues to be gay...

  • Too bad its still slower than the worlds fastest helo - the Bell533

  • please have the person who ruined this video with that horrible noise bitch slapped until they understand how this video was ruined.

  • @TennesseeJimmie I don't know why, but aerospace companies seem to think the lamest music is cool for their promos. Honestly, I think they would be much better off just playing some patriotic big band music than this trance crap. Seriously, though, ALL (or many) of the big aerospace companies seem to do this. Makes me ashamed to be an aerospace engineer. But then again, the aerospace industry often makes me ashamed to be an aerospace engineer.

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  • Sikorsky: Please MANUFACTURE this tandem two-seat X2 for the civilian general aviation market. I WANT one!

  • cool

  • True, the sound sucks.

    Going to an other video.

  • No sense of speed is ever conveyed to the viewer and yes I would like to know what it sounds like too.

  • Look into History-Lockheed X-51 did better with more room in 1963-No record here.

  • I flew my Sikorsky 76A with a registered ground speed of 265 knots once....

    Of course that was with a 120 knot TAILWIND!! ;o)

  • I...WANT....ONE!

  • it's only 60knots faster than Ka-52 "official" maximum speed...

  • @andrzejartymowicz

    In helecopter terms that is a HUGE number.

  • This video should have been shot at a different exposure rate. Any other exposure rate. Some people will be confused thinking that the blades don't move sometimes.

    That said, cool job Sikorsky.

  • @kinsmed They simply made it on purpose to make it look more impressive...

  • Wow ..what is this !!! i want one of this.

  • hahaahahaha, OMG, That's Old russian technology -> Kamov Ka-50 and others....

  • @AnimaMortuus This one is faster than all of those though.

  • KA-50 doesn't have a pusher prop and can't do 250 knots.

    Coaxial rotors aren't a "Russian technology". They've been around since the dawn of rotary flight.

  • @wun1gee, sure..;)

  • @AnimaMortuus

    You need to learn your history. Igor Sikorski may have BEEN Russian, but he moved to the US early in his career. Coaxial choppers have been around since June of 1909! But the first MODERN working coaxial design was 1930, by a French dude, Corradino D'Ascanio with the D'AT3

  • @EvilxMerlin thanks for the info, i'll learn about!

  • Dziwnie widać te śmigła, prawda? Jakby stały w miejscu.

  • *irony*Its so not ka-50/-52 wonna be*irony ends here*. China stills our stuff, now US too.. thats low. 

  • @cNbikals0 *irony* Russian never "stole" any USA technology *irony ends here*

  • @ewthmatth *irony not detected* anyhow yes, we did! But we didnt stole the cool looking stuff! MB cose US never had those back in Cold War days. Stilling cool stuff is low!

  • @cNbikals0

    The Russians never made cool looking stuff, they made cheap, easy to build by non-skilled staff. Look at the MiG-25 for an example. Everyone thought it was awesome until one was delivered by a defector and we found htem to be total crap.

  • @EvilxMerlin, it might seem like i would care about your opinion.. but in fact i dont. Just dont feel like wasting my time trying to prove another ignorant American-stuff-rulles fanboy that his perception on Russian stuff is rather a product of the propaganda machine, than a set of real facts.

    P.S. Ka-50/Su 47.. if u dont find them hot ur officially gay.

  • @cNbikals0

    The Su 47 STILL does not exist today. ONE of them was built, and it was a technical FAILURE. Read up on it. I never said American rules all. America does happen to have the best fighter jet and bombers in the air currently however. Russia has some of the best choppers.

  • @EvilxMerlin, lol, what the?..)) Su 47 is a prototype to test new technologies, it was never supposed to be mass-produced!!)) And as a technology tester it worked perfectly fine, didnt it?

    F22 is the best, until PAK FA is not fully developed. F35 is a failure;) As for the bombers..thats a big question.

  • @cNbikals0

    No, the technology didn't work perfectly fine. Almost NONE of it made it into any of MiG, Su or Tu's designes. The PAK FA is years out and the F-22 continues to improve, it already has more speed, better range and a FAR superior radar system. How the FUCK is the F-35 a failure???

  • @EvilxMerlin, Su 47 tested the composed materials, the pressure they can handle(due to the wings the pressure was much higher than it would be in normal conditions) and so on. It was developed for PAK FA.

    F22 is canceled, and ya..it makes sense that US improves stuff it has in it inventory.. so what?o_O

  • @cNbikals0

    Um, the F-22 isn't cancelled, its still in service. And those in service continue to improve with software and hardware updates.

    The composite materials used in the PAK FA have NOTHING in common with those used in the Su 47.

    Again, educate youself. Holy crap.

  • @EvilxMerlin, its funny when stupid people try to look all cool and aggressive, but..well..fail and still look damn stupid;)

    I will make it easy:

    a) F22 is cancelled. Like the old 3rd BMW is not produced anymore,yet is in service. Just to avoid any further attacks of stupidity: no, f22 is not an old BMW.

    b) No comments.

    c) F35 supplements the canceled F22. No,no,no..dont thank me, no no.. im not a superman, just doing my job!..

  • @cNbikals0

    You even said it the F-35 SUPPLEMENTS the F-22. SUPPLMENT is not replace. The F-35 is not a competitor to the F-22 or the PAK FA. Make a bet the F-22 production line starts up again in two years? Jesus you are a dumb cunt.

  • @EvilxMerlin, thats random.. did you just called Jesus dumb? Anywho, where did you get the BS about 2 years? Are you even familiar with the whole story, or are you just being American? Look, F22 was way 2 expensive, they cancelled the production and developed F35 instead. And yes, F35 is a supplement to F22, and a competitor to the PAK FA, Eurofighter and any other jets produced, at least in theory it is viewed that way. F35 would b supplied 2 all the NATO allies as the main fighting jet.

  • @cNbikals0

    You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. Go fuckyourself and keep dreaming about the PAK FA. Some of us are actual combat pilots, not armchair warriors that think they know it all.

  • @EvilxMerlin, you did not mention anything to counter my facts. The fact that you are a combat pilot does not change the fact that F35 is damn peace of crap. You do not develop machinery, you fucking fly it! That is, no one cares what you think. Your job is to fly what ever they give you. Thus, when you are stuck flying this crap, you might as well take a defensive position and pretend you enjoy it. Look, i understand! What ever comforts your useless existence,dude;) Have a nice day!

  • @cNbikals0

    You have yet to prove one iota that the F35 is a piece of crap. Hint, it was designed to replace teh F16, A10, F18 and Harrier. Guess what it performs better than all four, carries a higher weapons load all of them, better TtoW ratio than all of them and FAR more manuverable than all of them. So again, how is it a piece of crap? I'll be waiting.

  • @EvilxMerlin, the best thing about F35 is the stealth and the electronics. By those parameters F35 is ahead of old jets. Yet, when it comes to combat radius, max take of weight ad the ferry range.. well.. i gave you the characteristics, there is no way you can even put it in one line with the Raptor or PAK FA. And even when compared with Su35, Eurofighter, Rafael.. F35 is way behind in performance.

  • @cNbikals0

    Again, the F-35 isn't supposed to compete with any of the planes you listed (the Rafael sucks BTW and the Typhoon II not far behind it). It is designed as primarily a ground attack aircraft. Does the A-10 compete with any of those planes? No. You yourself said the F-35 complements the F-22. that is what is designed to do. Serve as the mud-mover while getting air cover by the F-22's. The best thing about the F-35 is its stealth, electronics, engine and mulit-role capabilities.

  • @EvilxMerlin, but multi-role is ill-performed. With a ferry range of 1000 kilometers the combat range should be ~400 maximum. I mean you have to admit that it is way to little.

    Also F35 is presented in the World as THE 5th gen air superiority fighter. It might not be in US, but it certainly is seen as in Uk, Aus nd Canada.

  • @cNbikals0

    You do realize that the Combat Radius of the F-35 is more than 2x that of the A-10 right? The F-35A is almost 600 miles right? The F-35B 450 miles, and the F-35C is almost 650 miles. Compare to the F-16 which is 340 miles in a ground support role, or the 300 miles of the Harrier. Hell even the F-22's combat radius is 410 miles.

  • @EvilxMerlin, my bad, F35 is not that bad after all. Even though i still think its a peace of crap, it is good enough to supplement the "old stock".

  • @cNbikals0

    At this time its still unproven. We can agree on that. The planes it is scheduled to replace have fantastic histories, and it has very big shoes to fill. BTW the F-35 is marketed as the "The World’s Only 5th Generation Multirole Fighter". Which it is.

  • @EvilxMerlin, and one other thing: listen, im not insulting you, so why dont you grow fucking up, and act civilized? Or is it 2 much 2 ask from an American? If it is, just let me know, and il finish our small chit chat to avoid wasting any more time.

  • @cNbikals0

    Poor little boy...

  • @EvilxMerlin, people are angry when they are afraid. If assaulting me comforts you and hides your lack of brain capacity, comforts your ego and raises your self esteem - so be it;)

  • @EvilxMerlin, here are the basic stats on jets:

    Su35; F35; F22; PAK FA

    38k 31k 38k 37k - max take of weight

    2.25 1.6+ 2.25 2+ - max speed (Mach)

    4.5k 1k 3,2k 5,5k - ferry range in kilometers

    All the info is publicly available.

    P.S. F35B has much lower performance.

    P.P.S on MTW depends the amount of missiles + fuel.

    P.P.P.S. combat range is ~3 times lower than FR.

    And that makes F35 a peace of crap.. an expensive peace of crap.

  • @cNbikals0

    You do realize what the F-35 is designed to do right? You do realize that it isn't designed to compete with either the F-22 or PAK FA right?

    Holy crap man, educate yourself.

  • Thats one sexy helicopter!

  • Would've been cool if they tested the pilot's ejector seat.

  • It is creepy how the main rotors spin at juuuuuuuuuuust the right speed that they look like they're almost standing still when in flight... O_o;

    Bad-ass lookin' chopper. >=)

    --EVA_Unit_4A

  • "wow, that was nice!"

  • Not really into choppers, but this is fucking cool man

  • there it is!!

  • Show. só ISSO.

  • Reminds me of the AH-56 Cheyenne. Anyone else?

  • @tman78au

    It does look similar, especially at the front end

  • Nice of the pilots to have terrible radio etiquette. Since when is "Roger" an appropriate response to a takeoff clearance? (Hint: Never!)

  • @zakooldude "Roger" remains a universal, English response for "acknowledged" or transmission received. I've got 1000 hrs. rotary wing time, and I've used and heard it used abundant times. 'course if all you fly is a video game or a broomstick, perhaps . . ..

  • @joytutor I'm a pilot, and no, not an armchair pilot on a broomstick. "Roger" may have been universal 20 years ago but now it's widely considered poor form and you should at least answer with your tail number.

  • Stuff and nonsense, no respect intended. I flew C model Huey gunships in RVN. In the military, the home of real pilots, "roger" remains as I said it does, an acknowledgment of transmission received. Fashion and vanity play no part in avionic commo. Your remark assures that you are a dweeb, no respect intended. Tail number?!? "We don' need no steenkeen' tail number." My call sign was Mad Dog 21 proud supporter of the infamous Greyhounds of the 240th AHC and glad detractor of posers such as you.

  • @joytutor You can't be fucking serious, right? We're talking domestic aviation, not macho air force lingo here. ALL current texts on flight training say to avoid the use of "Roger" because it's ambiguous.

  • @zakooldude This was a VFR departure where all clearances or instructions may be responded to with a "roger" (with the exception of a "hold short" clearance).

  • @sk76driver Actually I think you're right. I can't find anything in the FAR/AIM to contradict that. I was always taught to read back all clearances, however....

  • My pilot blood get hot by watching this... :)

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  • @pavelcheshev Igor Sikorsky was Russian too.

  • Ferro, chapas, Borracha e... um engenhocas aeronáutico e é nisto que dá

  • pretty sure the music is from the Chemical Brothers. Do you have the rights?

    Cool chopper btw :)

  • He has two rigid rotors spinning on top,and the vibration is acceptable,like two bo105s spinning "Just my opinion". Im wondering if control rates remain the same all the way through all the regimes without tweaking their exponential travels so that the pilot does not induce occilation. Maybe stabilization rates remain the same all the way through?

  • @nipponhouseplayer Its all fly by wire, computer controled, pilot uses joystick type controls to tell the computer what he wants it to do.

  • If the motor stops... it just drops out of the sky?

  • @tekutaro Helos can auto-rotate so they won't fall out of the sky like rocks.  As they fall the airflow hitting the bottom of the rotors causes them to spin and create a lot of air resistance. These emergency landings can be rough but definitely survivable with hardly any injury to you or the aircraft.

  • copy of Kamov coaxial rotors model

  • @1SidIcarus1 Negative, Kamov has no property of coaxial rotor technology, Sikorsky has tested thats technoloty on 70s S-69 or 60s Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH or Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne

  • @minoslas Kamov produced his first coaxial rotor helis before the WW2, just to let you know

  • @pavelcheshev no one gives a shit who did what first.

  • @minoslas well the first prototype using coaxial rotor technology KA-8 took off on November 12 1947 and in 1956 ka-15 was the first production coaxial rotors helicopter 356 were built. Shortly after that ka-18 was built using the same technology. and a coupe of more Ка-25 (1968), Ка-26 (1967)

  • @minoslas Sikorsky S-69 is from 70s. Google coaxial Kamov Ka-8, it's from 40s

  • Looks like he was vibrating a lot when moving fast.. in his voice I could hear it and in the video he was shaking a lot!

  • Je préfère le X3 !!

  • @VolantPneu GET A GRIP! X3 Destined for the Darwin Awards of Aviation

  • @Helipolarbear

    Howya head.

  • it would of been nice to hear what the fastest helicopter sounds like near the ground.. instead of the generic techno, trance blend.

  • @orizzonte i totally agree. its not always cool to add in bg music

  • @orizzonte Would *have

  • @orizzonte this is true - no lame music please

  • @orizzonte That's no helicopter. Real helicopters use there rotor heads as propulsion, not a propellor

  • пирожки!!

    

  • NICE!!!!!!!

  • POLSKA!

  • were the top blades moving quickly or slowly i couldn't tell...

  • How fast is 250kt in terms of mph?

  • @z3cka - 250 knots = 287.69 mph

  • @z3cka

    250 kts = 287 mph

    260 kts = 300 mph

  • Love the video! Anyhow, STOVL version of F-35 is much better :P

  • nice but apparently nasty high-frequency cabin resonance at top speed, doubles as a nice rear-end massage I guess ...

  • I gotta get me one of these!!!!!!!!

  • AH-56 Cheyenne + Kamov Ka50 = X2

  • Pilot is a bad ass. I know it wasn't a first flight, but breaking any record in a helicopter is cool.

  • Was the speed record aided by gravity?