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Ideal blade design
Hello gentlemen, i'm shure you can help a poor worm like me.
What would be, on your opinion, the ideal blade design for : - ultralight helicopter - gyro capabilities - tip jet capabilities - 3 bladed semirigid rotor. some basics : non linear twist, evolutive airfoil. - root chord : 18 cm chord airfoil : S1020 , twisted 10 deg - at 10 % : airfoil : VR7 , twisted 4 deg (CORRECTED) - at 90 % : 16 cm chord airfoil VR9 , twisted 2 deg - tip airfoil : super critical 0 deg twist. tip shape : a mix of swept back and BERP tip, 2 % down dihedral, 30 degrees swept back. weight expected : 3.5 kg (7lbs) what would be on your opinions the limitations in a gyro mode use, a tip jet use, a classical powered use. thank you |
Ideal blade design
How long do you expect the blade to be Zeeoo?.
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Bug,
the blade will be 3 meters long from tip to last airfoil, the hub will be about 50 cm diameter, meaning a disk diameter of 6.50 meters. Thank you. |
Ideal blade design
Thank you Zeeoo. A quick mental calc tells me your blades have to be about half the weight of r22 blades per foot lenght. Do I assume they would be of composite construction. Bug.
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Thanks Bug
Yes they will be made of composites. one precision about the weight : the blade grips will be molded with the whole blade, so, the extra weight for the blade, but weith save for the hub. Thank you |
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