Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft – heavier-than-air – Helicopter or auto-rotating wing sustained – i.e. – gyroplanes
Patent
1996-04-19
1998-10-27
Grant, William
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft, heavier-than-air
Helicopter or auto-rotating wing sustained, i.e., gyroplanes
244221, 416114, 416141, 416168R, B64C 27605
Patent
active
058268227
ABSTRACT:
A cyclic and collective control system is provided for controlling rotor pitch in a rotary wing aircraft. The rotor blades are pivotally mounted on a hollow, spinning shaft. An angularly and vertically displaceable control shaft is mounted with the spinning shaft and carries a rotatable control hub at its end. The control hub is coupled through pitch link rods to the rotor blades. When the control shaft is displaced vertically within the spinning shaft, the rotor blade pitch is changed collectively. When the control shaft is displaced angularly relative to the spinning shaft, the rotational plane of the control hub becomes skewed relative to the rotor axis. This has the effect of changing the pitch of the rotor blades in accordance with their rotational position around the rotor axis and has the further effect of providing cyclic control.
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