 The first flight of the S-97 occurred on 22 May 2015.It flew for 1 hour instead of the planned 30 minutes, completing three takeoffs and landings; forward, rearward and sideward.For this initial flight, the Raider was flown with its triplex fly-by-wire flight control system in backup degraded mode so as to focus on basic airworthiness in the low-speed regime.