Post: Vibration?
Vibration? →
Posted Tuesday 19th June 2007 03:34 GMT
In Special-forces robot whisper-copter enters flight test
One reason high performance 'copter blades have vibration problems is because the tip is supersonic, the hub is subsonic, and an intermediate point is ..sonic..
And a constant speed rotor means that the air speed at any radius is constant.
So how are they controlling the vibration problem and how are they dealing with the airspeed problem?
A new approach to rotor airfoil shape? Subsonic rotation? Adaptive balancing?
