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Helicopter Vibrations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. P. Jones*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton

Extract

I should like in this paper to review some of the work on helicopter vibrations which has been done at Southampton University in the past few years. This has been mainly concerned with blade vibration and there have been parallel theoretical and experimental programmes. Complimentary research has been going on in the United States and the results support each other in an encouraging way.

Type
Rotorcraft Section
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1960

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Footnotes

*

The fourth lecture to be given before the Rotorcraft Section of the Society—on 10th June 1960.

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