Approach taken by Westland Aircraft Ltd to prevent many defects persisting through development period and causing unreliability in service; summary of Wessex Mk. 1 helicopter development program with regard to transmission, controls, rotors and mechanisms, and complete aircraft shows importance of development testing; growth of overhaul period begins with experience accumulated by strip examination of number of components on completion of initial overhaul period; average achieved life and mean time between failures; establishment of failure probability requirement.


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    Title :

    Engineering reliability of shaft-driven helicopters


    Additional title:

    Roy Aeronautical Soc -- J


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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