Design features, with special attention to wing root attachments, wing center section discontinuities, and rotor blade twist, root fixity, and flexibility problem areas considered include rotor blade resonance, wing vibration, coupled wing rotor vibration, mechanical instability involving wing rotor coupling, wing flutter, wing divergence and aileron reversal; concept of equivalent rotor mass used in accounting for rotor dynamics.


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    Title :

    Some aeroelastic problems of tilt-wing VTOL aircraft


    Additional title:

    Am Helicopter Soc -- J


    Contributors:
    Loewy, R.G. (author) / Yntsma, R.T. (author)


    Publication date :

    1958


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Tilt-wing VTOL aircraft

    McCormick, Jr., B.W. / Mallen, J. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1957


    Tilt-wing VTOL aircraft as commercial air transport

    Mazzitelli, F.R. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1957



    Tilt-wing VTOL aircraft as commercial air transport

    Mazzitelli, F.R. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1957


    Product analysis of tilt-wing propelloplane type VTOL aircraft

    Nichols, J.B. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1959