A rotorcraft provided with an anti-torque tail rotor having a drive axis of constant orientation and having a rotor disk that is arranged mainly to one side of the tail boom of the rotorcraft. A control mechanism for controlling the blades of the tail rotor includes a rotary control plate engaged with the blades and movable by a control rod extending along the drive axis of the tail rotor. The control plate is arranged in a constant mounting plane (PM) and serves to provide permanent cyclic variation in the pitch of the blades. Turning the control rod changes the way in which the cyclical variation of the pitch of the blades is operated between providing a contribution to lift and providing a contribution to propulsion in translation of the rotorcraft, depending on the angular orientation of the control plate in its mounting plane (PM).
Rotorcraft fitted with an anti-torque tail rotor that contributes selectively to providing the rotorcraft with lift and with propulsion in translation
2016-06-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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