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The Pressure Jet Helicopter*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Stepan
A. Stepan*
Affiliation:
Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd.
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Extract

Before enlarging on the main subject of this paper, it will be helpful to clarify some fundamental conceptions of various rotor drive configurations.

In the past the original shaft-driven helicopter presented two major problems to the designer. These were first: the necessity to choose between either some torque balancing device or a multi-rotor layout and, second: the necessity of a large reduction gear box, the weight of which seemed to become prohibitive with increasing all-up weight of the design. Big helicopters with either single rotor/tail rotor configuration or multi-rotor configuration, are flying successfully and prove that these afore-mentioned problems, although still in existence, were mastered in an admirable way. Nevertheless, in the old days the words “ tip. drive ” had a magic sound to the harassed designer.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 62 , Issue 566 , February 1958 , pp. 123 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1958

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Footnotes

*

A Section Lecture given on 9th October 1956.

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