Different Airbus Helicopters main rotor blade profiles were tested in different icing wind tunnels and for different icing conditions. One of the objectives of the accretion tests was to validate the use of 2D icing scaling laws established for fixed wing aircraft on helicopter blade profiles. Therefore, ice shapes resulting from tests with the same icing similarity parameters are compared to each other allowing the assessment of icing scaling laws for helicopter applications. This paper presents the icing scaling laws used at Airbus Helicopters on blade profiles, the different test set ups and test models and it presents the comparison of the ice shapes collected during the icing wind tunnel test campaigns.
2D Ice Shape Scaling for Helicopter Blade Profiles in Icing Wind Tunnel
Sae Technical Papers
SAE 2015 International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures ; 2015
2015-06-15
Conference paper
English
2D Ice Shape Scaling for Helicopter Blade Profiles in Icing Wind Tunnel
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