Aeroelastic stability of a soft-inplane gimballed tiltrotor model in hover

19th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Nixon, Mark W ^a   Langston, Chester W ^a   Singleton, Jeffrey D ^a   Piatak, David J ^a   Kvaternik, Raymond G ^a   Corso, Lawrence M ^b   Brown, Ross ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CONVERTIBLE HELICOPTERS; DAMPING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; RESONANCE; STABILITY;

AEROELASTIC STABILITY; BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON; COLLECTIVE PITCH; GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTERS; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; STABILITY AUGMENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL WEIGHT;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 85067320277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-1533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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