Important scaling parameters for testing model-scale helicopter rotors

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 396-402

  Singleton, Jeffrey D ^a   Yeager Jr , William T ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TUNNELS;

HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; LOCK NUMBER; UTILITY HELICOPTERS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0033682770     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2639     Document Type: Article

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