The slowed rotor principle is used in the design of some helicopters. On a conventional helicopter the rotational speed of the rotor is constant; reducing it at lower flight speeds can reduce fuel consumption and enable the aircraft to fly more economically. In the compound helicopter and related aircraft configurations such as the gyrodyne and winged autogyro, reducing the rotational speed of the rotor and offloading part of its lift to a fixed wing reduces drag, enabling the aircraft to fly faster.
The slowedrotor principle is used in the design of some helicopters. On a conventional helicopter the rotational speed of the rotor is constant; reducing...
On a helicopter, the main rotor or rotor system is the combination of several rotary wings (rotor blades) with a control system, that generates the aerodynamic...
velocity. This allows the main rotor to be slowed by up to 15% as the craft's air speed increases and prevents the rotor blades breaking the sound barrier...
demonstrate slowedrotor technology. On 17 June 2005, the CarterCopter became the first rotorcraft to achieve mu-1 (μ=1), an equal ratio of airspeed to rotor tip...
by Carter Aviation Technologies to demonstrate slowedrotor technology. The design has an unpowered rotor mounted on top of the fuselage, wings like a conventional...
developed expertise in composite rotors and advanced transmission design. Other features include slowed "de-swirling" rigid rotors two feet apart, active force...
agreement with Carter Aviation Technologies concerning a possible autonomous slowedrotor/compound aircraft with potential for increased speed (250 knots) and...
rotor, or cyclorotor tip speed. When a propeller-driven vehicle is moving at high speed relative to the fluid, or the propeller is rotating slowly, the...
tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical...
rotor engaged with a pawl on the middle rotor, that too moved; and similarly with the leftmost ('slow') rotor. There are a huge number of ways that the...
such as winding inductance and rotor inertia are important; these factors limit performance. Large, powerful, but slow-responding servo loops may use...
rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and...
support the aircraft when airspeed is high enough. "Slowedrotor" indicates that the rotor is then slowed down in high speed flight to reduce drag. Heavy...
machine over-ran as it slowed, reversed to the position found and printed it out before restarting. The running time for a 4-rotor run was about 20 minutes...
A Flettner airplane is a type of rotor airplane which uses a Flettner rotor to provide lift. The rotor comprises a spinning cylinder with circular end...
engine's rotor, which creates the turning motion, is similar in shape to a Reuleaux triangle, with the sides having less curvature. The rotor spins inside...
about the rotors of the Enigma machine. Understanding the way the machine encrypts requires taking into account the current position of each rotor, the ring...
the stator rotating magnetic field and the rotor shaft speed called slip to induce rotor current in the rotor AC winding. As a result, the induction motor...
not speed. The aircraft measures 35 ft (11 m) from nose to tail and has a rotor diameter of 36 ft (11 m). The project was abandoned by the US Army in December...
configurations of JMR aircraft – a conventional helicopter, a large-wing slowedrotor compound helicopter, and a tiltrotor – were being studied as of April...
a rotor to create friction. There are two basic types of brake pad friction mechanisms: abrasive friction and adherent friction. This action slows the...
aircraft that generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles usually...
A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors...