Simplified rotor head fairing

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1978-05-11

1980-07-15

Powell, Jr., Everette A.

Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)

Articulated, resiliently mounted or self-shifting impeller...

Plural articulation

244 1727, 416244R, 416245R, 416145, B64C 2738

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042125880

ABSTRACT:
A helicopter main rotor has an improved fairing enclosing the rotor hub and blade root area for drag and vibration reduction purposes. The fairing has peripheral cutouts through which the blades project provided with rounded lips on the rim of the cutouts to streamline air flowing in and out of the fairing through the cutouts. Internal partitions divide the fairing into chambers, each of which subtends one cutout, thus preventing flow of air through the fairing and attendant drag caused thereby. The rotor pylon is provided with a well through which the rotor drive shaft projects having a rounded lip adjacent the fairing to produce streamline airflow out of the well.

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