Design and fabrication of an adaptive leading edge rotor blade

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2178-2186

  Kota, Sridhar ^a   Ervin, Gregory ^a   Osborn, Russell ^a   Ormiston, Robert A ^b  

^a FlexSys Inc   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORWARD SPEED; LEADING EDGES; PAY LOAD CAPACITY; ROTOR BLADES; SIKORSKY; VARIABLE GEOMETRY;

HELICOPTER ROTORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

EID: 50049124384     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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