Wing-flaperon and swashplate control for whirl-flutter stability augmentation of a soft-inplane tiltrotor

31st European Rotorcraft Forum

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Singh, Rupinder ^a   Gandhi, Farhan ^a   Hathaway, Eric ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MODELS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DAMPING; FEEDBACK; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ROTORS; STABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AIRSPEED; FLAPERON; SWASHPLATE DEFLECTION; TILTROTOR;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33746595792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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