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Technology assessment for large vertical-lift transport tiltrotors
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Strauss, Michael P. Germanowski, Peter J. Stille, Brandon L. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | The technical community has identified rotor efficiency as a critical enabling technology for large vertical-lift transport (LVLT) rotorcraft. The size and performance of LVLT aircraft will be far beyond current aircraft capabilities, enabling a transformational change in cargo transport effectiveness. Two candidate approaches for achieving high efficiency were considered for LVLT applications: a variable-diameter tiltrotor (VDTR) and a variable-speed tiltrotor (VSTR); the former utilizes variable-rotor geometry and the latter utilizes variable-rotor speed. Conceptual aircraft designs were synthesized for the VDTR and VSTR and compared to a conventional tiltrotor (CTR). The aircraft were optimized to a common objective function and bounded by a set of physical- and requirements-driven constraints. The resulting aircraft were compared for weight, size, performance, handling qualities, and other attributes. These comparisons established a measure of the relative merits of the variable-diameter and -speed rotor systems as enabling technologies for LVLT capability. |
| File Size | 3176739 |
| Page Count | 80 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110008354 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2z36sx99 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aeronautics (general) Vertical Motion Simulators Tilt Rotor Aircraft Rotors Technology Assessment Wind Tunnel Tests Rotor Aerodynamics Models Rotary Wing Aircraft Very Large Transport Aircraft Aerodynamic Characteristics Helicopter Design Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |