Rotor aeromechanics results from the Sikorsky active flap demonstration rotor

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 553-568

  Lorber, Peter ^a   Hein, Benjamin ^a   Wong, Jonathan ^a   Wake, Brian ^b  

^a SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTIVE FLAPS; AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FULL SCALE; HIGH-POWER-DENSITY; HIGHER HARMONIC CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS; ROTOR AERODYNAMICS; ROTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTOR SYSTEMS; SIKORSKY; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS; TRIM CONTROL;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EXPERIMENTS; HELICOPTERS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 84864867837     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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