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Rotor and gyrocopter with said rotor
 
   
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US Patent 7275913
Issued Date
October 2, 2007
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A rotor, comprising at least one rotor blade connectable to a rotor head, which rotor blade possesses a blade neck having a virtual flapping hinge in the form of a flexurally soft, flexurally elastic blade-neck portion, there being provided, in a blade-connector region of the blade neck, two auxiliary flapping hinges, spaced apart from one another in the radial longitudinal direction of the rotor blade with reference to a rotor radius, between which the virtual flapping hinge is substantially disposed and between which the blade neck is deformable in flexurally elastic and curved fashion in the context of a flapwise motion. A rotorcraft, in particular a helicopter, in particular a tiltrotor helicopter, having at least one such rotor.
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Published
October 2, 2007
Application Number
10/552,320
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April 6, 2004
US Classification
416/134A   416/244R
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B64C   27/39   (20060101)  
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Apr 08, 2003 [DE] 103 16 095
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416/134A   416/138   416/141   416/230   416/244R  
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