Active Balancing: Coming Soon to an Aircraft Near You?
Lord Corporation partnered with Hamilton Sundstrand to offer an active balancing system for propellers called In-Flight Propeller Balancing (IFPB).
IFPB system can be expected to reduce the average propeller vibration level during flight by a factor of five to 10 and could benefit USAF C-130 and the U.S. Navy P-3 and E-2C/C-2A.
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