Originally Posted by heli1
Eurocopter are well ahead,already flying active flap technology on an EC135.
Heli1, are there any links / publications on that work? Not that that i doubt your word, i am genuinely interested. I know that ONERA were doing a lot of work on this system recently (using an EC135 rotor system i imagine). The difficulty with the trailing edge only servos, as i recall, is that for the desired lift modification you also get an undesired pitch modification. I had wondered about leading and trailing edge devices to counter this, and maybe also allow twist resonance damping (blades resonate in flap and twist - ideally at well seperated frequencies to avoid flutter).
Mart