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Old 15th Dec 2014, 09:57
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Paul Cantrell
 
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Bearingless Rotor Systems

Phoinix says:

EC135, maybe even MD900 from the looks of it.
and Otterotor says:

The Model 430 (out of production) and the H-1 Upgrades, Yankee and brother Zulu all Bell aircraft that have feathering flexures eliminating the feathering bearing.
Thanks guys. For people interested, I found a Google Book excerpt that mentions exactly these rotor systems: https://books.google.com/books?id=rv...20head&f=false

plus the Comanche rotor system which it claims was a derivative of the BO-108 (EC135) rotor design. Cool designs although visually the cuff reminds me a bit of a Brantly rotor system! :-)

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