PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Red Bull B0-105
Thread: Red Bull B0-105
View Single Post
Old 2nd Jul 2022, 12:51
  #89 (permalink)  
JohnDixson
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hobe Sound, Florida
Posts: 952
Received 33 Likes on 27 Posts
I’ve been out of touch on this sort of detail, but US military helos test specs for the structural demonstration series of maneuvers always included demo to -0.5 G*. ( and no, I don’t know how the Bell guys accomplished this data point with a teetering rotor,, but God bless ‘em, they must have found a way )
For the US Army UTTAS competition the Boeing and Sikorsky competitors had an additional maneuver requirement added, which in part required holding 0.0 G for two seconds.
*As measured at the aircraft center of gravity, thus the cockpit Nz would be lower ( due to the pitch rate ) esp. in larger machines.
JohnDixson is offline