Updated assessments of an open rotor airplane using advanced blade designs

49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hendricks, Eric S ^a   Berton, Jeffrey J ^a   Haller, William J ^a   Tong, Michael T ^a   Guynn, Mark D ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH; AIRCRAFT DESIGN; ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES; ENGINE MANUFACTURERS; FUEL EFFICIENCY; INITIAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; PROPULSION SYSTEM;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ENGINES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NASA; PROPULSION; RESEARCH; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

DESIGN;

EID: 84883708150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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