Fast hybrid helicopter with long range and proportional drive to the rotor and the propeller
AssigneeEurocopter
InventorPhilippe Roesch
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InventorPhilippe Roesch
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A hybrid helicopter (1) includes firstly an airframe provided with a fuselage (2) and a lift-producing surface (3), together with stabilizer surfaces (30, 35, 40), and secondly with a drive system constituted by: a mechanical interconnection system (15) between firstly a rotor (10) of radius (R) with collective pitch and cyclic pitch control of the blades (11) of the rotor (10), and secondly at least one propeller (6) with collective pitch control of the blades of the propeller (6); and at least one turbine engine (5) driving the mechanical interconnection system (15). The device is remarkable in that the outlet speeds of rotation of the at least one turbine engine (5), of the at least one propeller (6), of the rotor (10), and of the mechanical interconnection system (15) are mutually proportional, the proportionality ratio being constant.
A hybrid helicopter having a long range and a high forward speed, the helicopter comprising:
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