The present disclosure relates to a rotary wing aircraft that extends along an associated roll axis between a nose region and an aft region. The rotary wing aircraft comprises a main rotor; a shrouded duct that is arranged in the aft region and that forms an inner air duct, wherein the shrouded duct is formed to generate sideward thrust for main rotor anti-torque in forward flight condition of the rotary wing aircraft; and a propeller that is at least configured to propel the rotary wing aircraft in the forward flight condition; wherein the propeller forms a circular propeller disc in rotation around an associated rotation axis; and wherein the propeller is rotatably mounted to the shrouded duct such that the circular propeller disc is at least essentially arranged inside of the inner air duct.
Rotary wing aircraft with a shrouded tail propeller
2024-07-16
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |