Aeroelastic tailoring for stability augmentation and performance enhancements of tiltrotor aircraft

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 270-279

  Nixon, Mark W ^a   Piatak, David J ^a   Corso, Lawrence M ^b   Popelka, David A ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

TILTROTOR AIRCRAFTS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0034295236     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.45.270     Document Type: Article

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