NASA/Army/Bell XV-15 tiltrotor low noise terminal area operations flight research program

6th Aeroacoustics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Conner, David A ^a   Edwards, Bryan D ^b   Decker, William A ^c   Marcolini, Michael A ^a   Klein, Peter D ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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