Assessment of performance of various types of helicopters ranging from pure, semicompound, compound, and stowed-rotor helicopters; flight-research programs conducted by helicopter industry with military-agency support to evaluate operational suitability are reviewed; it is shown that direct operating costs for commercial helicopters have been greatly reduced by increasing cruise speed and payload and reducing maintenance requirements; cost of 31 cents per available seat mile for 1948 aircraft has been reduced to 8 cents per available seat mile with current helicopters; improvement will continue to value of 4 cents per seat mile for helicopter of 1970.


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    Titel :

    Helicopter prospects


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Astronautics Aeronautics


    Beteiligte:
    Wood, C.C. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1965


    Format / Umfang :

    4 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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