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Old 5th Jun 2010, 12:45
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Blue Edge rotor blade from Eurocopter

Eurocopter's Blue Edge rotor blade has three flaps added onto the standard design, which "move up and down at 15 to 40 times per second, using piezoelectric motors that also help to reduce the blade-vortex interaction."
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Looks and sounds like a radical design

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