Tiltrotor BVI noise reduction through flight trajectory management & configuration control

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-444

  Gervais, Marc ^a,b   Schmitz, Fredric H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECELERATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTION; DECELERATION CONSTRAINT; INFLOW CONSTRAINT; ROTOR INFLOW MODELING; TILTROTOR;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 8644261609     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/jahs.49.436     Document Type: Article

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