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  • Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More

  • Report: Sikorsky-Boeing Team’s SB-1 Defiant Helicopter Now Registered With FAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Sikorsky-Boeing Team’s SB-1 Defiant Helicopter Now Registered With FAA

    Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has registered the proposed SB-1 Defiant coaxial helicopter as S-100 with the Federal Aviation Administration, Vertical reported Wednesday. Sikorsky and Boeing have teamed up to develop and propose SB-1 Defiant for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program that would serve as a forerunner for the service’s Future Vertical Lift initiative. […] More