Belesarius Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Prototype Valor in the wild. (Probably getting ready for engine tests.) Figure the FVL program is getting big enough to move out of the general thread. LoooSeR and Zyklon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted February 16, 2018 Report Share Posted February 16, 2018 Collimatrix and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Hmmmmm. Something wrong here. @Sturgeon caught it right quick on Discord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xlucine Posted February 4, 2019 Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 The V-280 is now worthy of the name: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/v-280-valor-reaches-namesake-cruising-speed-of-280-knots/ Quote V-280 Valor reaches namesake cruising speed of 280 knots The Bell V-280 Valor successfully achieved its namesake optimal cruise speed of 280 knots, say Bell. Keith Flail, vice president of Advanced Vertical Lift Systems at Bell, said: “It is a remarkable achievement to hit this airspeed for the V-280 Valor in just over a year of flight testing. Beyond the exemplary speed and agility of this aircraft, this significant milestone is yet another proof point that the V-280 is mature technology, and the future is now for FVL capability set 3.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 FARA contender from AVX https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27450/new-contender-for-the-armys-high-speed-armed-scout-helicopter-program-emerges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/fara-army-awards-5-design-contracts-winner-enters-production-in-2028/ Quote Just 13 months after Army leaders put a new scout aircraft on the fast track — and two months ahead of its original target date to award contracts — the service has chosen five firms to design potential Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. The winning companies are a who’s who of usual suspects with some interesting twists: -AVX Aircraft (Fort Worth), an innovative design firm that’s now teamed with L-3 (Waco), which provides actual manufacturing capability AVX has lacked; -Bell (also Fort Worth), whose gamble on offering an upgraded conventional helicopter seems to be paying off (see more on that below); -Boeing (Mesa, Arizona), the aerospace titan that builds the Army’s AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook; -Karem Aircraft (Lake Forest, California), known for innovative designs and small-scale projects but not mass production; -Sikorsky (Stratford, Connecticut), a Lockheed subsidiary that builds the current UH-60 Black Hawk and is now developing radically innovative compound helicopter designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Belesarius Posted October 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2019 2 hours ago, Ramlaen said: Comanche Mk 2. LoooSeR, Scolopax and Beer 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted January 10, 2020 Report Share Posted January 10, 2020 https://breakingdefense.com/2020/01/fvl-army-wont-wait-for-sikorsky-to-catch-up-to-bell/ The Army is under no obligation to let the Sikorsky-Boeing team catch up to rival Bell before it holds its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition, the Army Secretary and the Program Executive Officer for Aviation both made clear this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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