Patent · US Expired

Helicopter with coaxial counter-rotating dual rotors and no tail rotor

US5791592A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 18, 1995
Grant dateAug 11, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 18, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB64C27/10
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A helicopter having two engines driving a single rotating drive shaft on which are mounted two spaced counter-rotating coaxial rotors at the same speed and having a tail boom free of a tail rotor and supporting two horizontally spaced pairs of air foils for controlling the direction of yaw in flight.

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