Blade for rotary wing aircraft
AssigneeEurocopter
InventorFran.cedilla.ois Valentin Gaston Toulmay
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Abstract
A blade for a rotary wing aircraft includes a blade tip winglet intended to reduce the blade-vortex interaction noise during descending flight. The winglet has, in plan view, an at least approximately trapezoidal shape, and the mean value of a chord C.sub.1 of the winglet is between 25% and 40% of a chord C.sub.0 of the main part of the blade. Compared with a conventional rectangular tip, and for the same aerodynamic thrust, the reduction in noise associated with use of the blade tip winglet can be as much as 40%.
Claims7
A blade for a rotary wing aircraft, said blade comprising a main part of the blade having a chord C.sub.0 and a blade tip winglet having a chord C.sub.1, said blade tip winglet intended to reduce blade-vortex interaction noise during descending flight,
- wherein said winglet has, in plan view, an at least approximately trapezoidal shape, and wherein a mean value of said chord C.sub.1 of the winglet is between 25% and 40% of said chord C.sub.0 of the main part of the blade,
- wherein an expression defining a chord of said winglet based on a first coordinate (R-x)/C.sub.0, in which R represents a total span of said winglet, and x represents a variable length along said span R, and a second coordinate C.sub.1 /C.sub.0,
- has a lower limit at a point A at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 1.00 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 1.00;
- at a point B at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 1.00 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 0.35;
- and at a point C at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 0.00 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 0.15;
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- has an upper limit at a point D at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 0.60 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 1.00;
- at a point E at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 0.60 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 0.40;
- and at a point F at which (R-x)/C.sub.0 is equal to 0.00 and C.sub.1 /C.sub.0 is equal to 0.40.
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