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Compound Sikorsky X2 Makes First Flight

Thirty-eight months after Sikorsky’s formal announcement of the X2 “technology demonstrator,” the compound helicopter made its first flight yesterday at th

By Mark Huber • Contributor

August 28, 2008

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