Hover test of a soft-inplane gimballed tiltrotor model

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-66

  Nixon, Mark W ^a   Langston, Chester W ^a   Singleton, Jeffrey D ^a   Piatak, David J ^a   Kvaternik, Raymond G ^a   Corso, Lawrence M ^b   Brown, Ross ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DAMPING; SYSTEM STABILITY; WINGS;

SOFT-INPLANE GIMBALLED TILTROTORS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 0037245099     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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