Development of Mach-scale swashplateless rotor with embedded trailing-edge flaps

33rd European Rotorcraft Forum 2007, ERF33

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2679-2719

  Sirohi, Jayant ^a   Allen, Keith ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Mach scale rotor; Piezobender; Soft pitch link; Swashplateless; Trailing edge flaps

Indexed keywords

BLADE PITCH; COMPOSITE ROTORS; CONTROL REQUIREMENTS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN SPEED; FORWARD FLIGHT; HOVER TEST; INDEX ANGLES; LIFT FORCE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PITCH LINKS; ROTOR SPEED; SOFT PITCH LINK; SWASHPLATELESS ROTOR; TORSIONAL FREQUENCY; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS; TRAILING-EDGE FLAPS; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; HELICOPTER ROTORS; SPEED; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

TESTING;

EID: 77954234592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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