A blade tracking system for a rotary wing aircraft (10) includes a blade sensor (30) mounted on a blade (24) of the rotary wing aircraft (10), the blade sensor (30) wirelessly transmitting blade data; a reference sensor (32) mounted to the rotary wing aircraft, the blade (24) driven by the rotor hub (26), the reference sensor (32) transmitting reference data; and a processor (36) receiving the blade data and the reference data, the processor (36) determining at least one of lead-lag, flap and pitch of the blade in response to the blade data and the reference data.
Rotary wing aircraft blade tracking
Drehflügelflugzeug-Blattverfolgung
Suivi de pale d'aéronef à voilure tournante
2019-06-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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