A rotorcraft may include an airframe and a rotor connected to the airframe. The rotor may include a hub and a rotor blade connected to the hub to extend radially away therefrom. The rotor blade may include biasing fibers, oriented to increase the twist of the rotor blade in response to an increase in the speed of rotation of the rotor corresponding to a mission, task, or maneuver.
Mission-adaptive rotor blade
2017-03-28
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |