A Parametric Design Study for a Swashplateless Helicopter Rotor with Trailing-Edge Flaps

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-53

  Shen, Jinwei ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; BEARING CAPACITY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; DAMPING; EDGE DETECTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS; TORSION TESTING;

HELICOPTER BLADES; SWASHPLATELESS HELICOPTERS; TRAILING-EDGE FLAPS;

ROTORS;

EID: 1242352416     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.49.43     Document Type: Article

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