Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Airplane and fluid sustained
Patent
1984-07-20
1986-09-09
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Airplane and fluid sustained
244 6, 244207, 244 23D, B64C 2104, B64C 2726
Patent
active
046104100
ABSTRACT:
A compound helicopter shown in FIG. 1 of the drawings has wings 12 in addition to a helicopter rotor 14 and has twin powerplants 16 each including a low pressure compressor 18, a gas generator 20, a power turbine 22 driven by the gas generator and connected through a gearbox 32 to drive the helicopter rotor, and a variable area final propulsion nozzle 24 which receives the exhaust from the power turbine. Augmentor wing flaps 28 are provided on the wings and fed with air from the low pressure compressor for providing additional lift and thrust from the wings. The flaps 28 are pivotally mounted on the trailing edge of the wing and are movable to a position where the trailing edges of the flaps 28 obturate the flow through the gap between the flaps 28. In this position the flaps provide a means of decelerating the forward speed of the aircraft.
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Barefoot Galen
Rolls-Royce Limited
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