Sikorsky for decades has been developing and testing X2 technologies that have proven a coaxial main-rotor helicopter can fly as fast or faster than a turboprop airplane. That investment has resulted in the S-97 Raider and SB>1 Defiant that are competing against equally robust prototypes to be the future of military rotorcraft. The chief engineer on all of those programs and the test pilot who flew them speak to Vertical.

Vertical discusses flying helicopters for Hollywood with veteran stunt pilot Aaron Fitzgerald, also one of a few people on earth qualified to perform helicopter aerobatics like flips, rolls and other maneuvers rotorcraft aren't traditionally supposed to pull.