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Experiments Towards a Circulation-Controlled Lifting Rotor

Part 1—Wind Tunnel Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. Dunham
J. Dunham*
Affiliation:
National Gas Turbine Establishment, Pyestock
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The world's aircraft industries have devoted substantial effort in the past decade towards the realisation of aircraft which can take-off and land vertically. Such aircraft have many potential applications for both military and civil use. Two dominating operational factors have emerged: noise and downwash. In the author's opinion, jet lift and fan lift aircraft with their high disc loadings will prove too noisy for city-centre use and produce too violent a down-wash flow to operate from unprepared sites. These difficulties, added to the inherently higher power requirements of high disc loading, have swung attention more and more towards large lifting rotors, varying from large dual-purpose propellers to more conventional helicopter rotors.

Type
Management Techniques of Guided Weapon Development
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 709 , January 1970 , pp. 91 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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