PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Mil Helicopters Blade Retention?
View Single Post
Old 18th Jun 2017, 05:23
  #14 (permalink)  
riff_raff
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 601
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
In the picture provided above, you can see that the main structural attachment for the blade is a multi-lug clevis joint with two shear bolts. The only thing that seems different with this design is the type of shear bolt used. Most of the similar blade attachments I have seen use an "expanding" shear bolt, which has a set of split taper bushings that expand in diameter when the nut is torqued, to eliminate any clearance between the bolt and clevis bores, creating an optimum fit.

riff_raff is offline