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7585153 Upper rotor control system for a counter-rotating rotor system  
An upper rotor control system is contained within an upper rotor shaft and upper hub assembly of a contra-rotating rigid rotor system. A collective servo assembly includes a hydraulic actuator that...
7264199 Unloaded lift offset rotor system for a helicopter  
A rotor system ( 12 ) for a helicopter ( 10 ) includes a rotating shaft ( 82 ). A gimbaled hub assembly ( 56 ) is coupled to the rotating shaft ( 82 ). Rotating blades ( 24 ) and non-rotating...
7077629 Multi-fan assembly  
A multi-fan assembly whose revolution speed can be controlled by a member fan designed with a reverse rotating structure, which includes a housing in which is provided a rotatable member; a...
7052242 Multi-fan assembly comprising a servomotor driven vertical oscillation means for each fan  
A multi-fan assembly includes: a down rod assembly having a first end for fixing to a ceiling wall and having a second end provided with a canopy, a rotary assembly being fixed to a lower end of...
6082967 Constant-speed twin spool turboprop unit  
A constant-speed twin spool turboprop unit including a twin spool gas generator having a low-pressure spool and a high-pressure spool each including a compressor and a turbine which drives the...
6053700 Ducted turbine  
A turbine 400 has a central duct 410 which accelerates fluid passing through it and a blade configuration which retards the flow of fluid near the tips of the turbine. This structure results in a...
5860788 Low drag fan assembly  
A fan assembly includes a circular first array of first fan blades; a first primary ring member supportively connecting inner extremities of the first blades about a fan axis, respective end...
5601257 Air vehicle yaw control system  
The yaw control in an air vehicle having counter rotating rotors is provided by selectively and controllably applying a frictional drag or braking force to drive gears for the two rotors. Each of...
5242265 Aircraft pitch change mechanism  
A system for changing pitch in aircraft propfans is disclosed, in which a motor, located at a stationary position, changes pitch of the blades by of a gear train. Three features of the system are...
5154580 Propeller pitch change mechanism  
The invention relates to pitch-change systems for aircraft propfans of the counterrotating type. The pitch of each propfan stage is independently adjustable. Further, in the case where one of the...
5152668 Pitch change mechanism for prop fans  
The invention relates to pitch-change systems in aircraft propellers. The invention includes redundant planetary gear systems, each of which can independently change pitch if the other fails. The...
4936746 Counter-rotation pitch change system  
A propeller system has a pair of hub assemblies driven in counter-rotation, each hub assembly having a mechanical pitch change actuator, each actuator being provided with a pitch lock that rotates...
4842484 Blade gearing and pitch changing mechanisms for coaxial counterrotating propellers  
A lightweight counterrotatable propeller system driven by a rotatable shaft is disclosed. The system includes first and second counterrotatable propellers, each propeller including a plurality of...
4828518 Double reverse revolution propeller apparatus  
A double reverse revolution propeller apparatus includes front and rear propeller wherein the rear propeller is rotated at higher speeds than the front propeller. When seizure occurs, an inner...
4772181 Bladed rotor assembly and a control system therefor  
A counterrotatable bladed rotor assembly drivable by a rotatable shaft comprises a leading propeller, a trailing propeller, and a gearbox located axially between the two propellers and enclosed by...
4767270 Hoop fan jet engine  
A fan jet engine assembly comprising a hoop fan surrounding a turbojet (19) is disclosed. The hoop fan includes a pair of rotatable hubs (27, 29) that encircle the turbojet. A stage of fan blades...
4621978 Counterrotating power turbine  
An improved counterrotating power turbine is disclosed. The power turbine includes a support having an annular axial cross-section and forward and aft portions. The forward portion of the support...
4483658 Rotational wake reaction steps for Foils  
The action of upstream and downstream foil sets rotating on a common shaft within a fluid is enhanced by fixing certain interrelations of the foils such as the axial distance between the foils, the...
4367063 Pitch control mechanism for coaxial helicopter steering  
A directional and yaw control mechanism for coaxial helicopters, comprising a three coaxial ring system interconnected through a cam and link assembly for transmitting control signals from a...
4347997 Helicopters  
A helicopter including a power absorber arranged to selectively absorb power from a sustaining rotor system during deceleration. In an illustrated embodiment for a helicopter having a single...
4170437 Helicopter primary flight controls  
Yaw control device for helicopters with contra-rotating rotors which controls the anti-torque action of the rotors on the helicopter fuselage by means of a variable speed reduction ratio drive...
4123018 Helicopters with coaxial rotors, of convertible type in particular  
The invention relates to improvements to helicopters with coaxial rotors, of convertible type in particular, consisting of at least two contra rotative rotors carrying blades for lifting and...
4008979 Control for helicopter having dual rigid rotors  
A control for a helicopter having dual, coaxial, counterrotating rigid rotors which varies the cyclic control phase angle of each rotor in flight as a function of vehicle forward speed to thereby...
3905565 Tilt axis dual rotor helicopter and control system  
A dual rotor helicopter is comprised of rotor supports tiltable about a line or lines parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The rotor blades are mounted for free tilting with respect to...
3830587 AXIAL FLOW FAN ASSEMBLY  
An axial flow fan assembly in which two or more fans in series provide successive fan stages which are close together and in which the average pitch angle of the blades of one stage differs...
3709187 PROPULSION AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MOTORBOAT  
A combination motor boat propulsion and steering control system is shown which is particularly adapted to planing hull, high speed boats. The invented combination will eliminate the need for a...
3592559 VARIABLE GEOMETRY ROTOR SYSTEM  
This rotor system is designed to control the nonuniform wake shed from a given rotor blade impinging upon the other blades of the rotor system. The rotor system utilizes blade sets which are of a...
3574483 PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM FOR BLADED ROTOR  
Two Z-crank mechanisms connect at different stations to a rotor swashplate so that translation of the mechanisms causes collective pitch variation of the blades and so that rotation of the...
3570786 CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT  
A control device and method for operating an aircraft having rigid lifting rotors in which the rotor blades can carry steady offset lift vectors. The blades of the rotors are adjustable cyclically...
3494707 CONVERTIPLANE  
3409249 Coaxial rigid rotor helicopter and method of flying same  
3409248 Rotary winged aircraft with drag propelling rotors and controls  
3393747 Controllers for air cushion craft  
3391745 Apparatus for operating propellers  
3388748 Apparatus for operating propellers  
3273653 Rotary wing aircraft  
3199601 Flight control system  
3184183 Flying platform  
3184181 Convertiplane with control mechanism  
3181810 Attitude control system for vtol aircraft  
3176774 Helicopter drive control  
3155343 Convertible aircraft structure  
3141668 Twin rotor helicopter roundabout  
3096043 Aerodynes having a slipstream-assisted wing system  
3008524 Control system for four power units and the combination  
2989125 Differential system with variable diameter sheaves  
2982361 Variable camber blading  
2973042 Multi-engine aircraft feather indicating system  
2954945 Helicopter aircraft control  
2868476 Convertiplane with tiltable cylindrical wing  
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