DESIGN APPROACH TO COMMERCIAL ROTOR VTOL

Recent developments have extended rotor VTOL into the high-performance category required for economic inter-city operations. This has been achieved through: (1) advances in propulsion and structures technology; (2) increased knowledge of the behavior of rotor systems; (3) experimental and simulator investigations of unloaded, tilting, stoppable and stowable rotors, and rotor/wings and (4) design investigations indicating high probability of economical payload-fractions for mission profiles of interest. This technological base is examined and the candidate rotor VTOL configurations which it makes available are identified and analyzed. The applicable time-frame is determined and preliminary design requirements are derived. The candidate configurations and their variants are analyzed on a comparative basis against this set of preliminary requirements.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  Technical Information Service, 750 Third Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10017
• Authors:
  • Katzenberger, E F
• Publication Date: 1967-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intercity transportation; VTOL aircraft
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00073068
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: 67-410
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM