Ducted fan aerodynamics in forward flight

AHS International Specialists' Meeting - Unmanned Rotorcraft: Design, Control and Testing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 237-248

  Graf, Will ^a   Fleming, Jonathan ^a   Ng, Wing ^a   Gelhausen, Paul ^b  

^a Techsburg Inc   (United States)

^b AVID LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUCTED FAN AERODYNAMICS; EDGE GEOMETRY; STATIC THRUST PERFORMANCE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DRAG; FANS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33644642258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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