Anti-vibration moment generating aircraft actuation system
AssigneeSikorsky Aircraft Corporation
InventorsDavid H. Hunter, William A. Welsh, Bryan Kenneth Baskin, Chris Paul Butler
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AssigneeSikorsky Aircraft Corporation
InventorsDavid H. Hunter, William A. Welsh, Bryan Kenneth Baskin, Chris Paul Butler
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An aircraft is provided and includes an airframe, an engine, a drive portion driven by the engine, a rotor apparatus, which includes a rotor rotatable relative to the airframe and a fairing, a gearbox disposed to transmit rotational energy from the drive portion to the rotor to drive the rotor to rotate relative to the airframe and which generates a rotor rotation vibration, support members by which the gearbox is disposed on the airframe and an actuation system including actuation elements disposed at the fairing, the actuation system being configured to generate an anti-vibration moment using the actuation elements disposed at the fairing to counter the rotor rotation vibration.
An aircraft, comprising:
An actuation system of an aircraft comprising coaxial, counter rotating rotors rotatable relative to an airframe, a fairing disposed between the rotors, a gearbox disposed to transmit rotational energy to the rotors to drive rotor rotation and support members by which the gearbox is disposed on the airframe, the actuation system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.