Helicopter and new VTOL aircraft, although differing in appearance, belong to same family; dominant parameter is disk loading, giving 2 types of actuator disk, open disk or rotor and buried disk or fan; noise and vibration criteria; rotor is subject to aerodynamic limitations, which give speed limits for pure rotor and rotor compounded with fixed wing; engine requirements for pure, compound, and convertible helicopters; their characteristics, economics and uses.
Helicopter, first of VTOL aircraft
Roy Aeronautical Soc -- J
Royal Aeronautical Society -- Journal ; 65 , n 612
1961
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY, CONVENTIONAL, STOL-VTOL - Transonic Helicopter Noise
Online Contents | 2005
|Helicopter and VTOL Aircraft Landing Pad Information Sheet
Europäisches Patentamt | 2019
|Helicopter and VTOL aircraft landing pad information sheet
Europäisches Patentamt | 2021
|