Tiltrotor vibration reduction through higher harmonic control

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-245

  Nixon, Mark W ^a   Kvaternik, Raymond G ^b   Settle, T Ben ^c  

^a Vehicle Technology Cent   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ROTATION; SPEED; TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS; VIBRATION CONTROL; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

HIGHER HARMONIC CONTROL; MULTIPOINT ADAPTIVE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM ALGORITHM; TILTROTORS;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 0032114611     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.43.235     Document Type: Article

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