Boeing Awarded Contract to Test Advanced Helicopter Rotor System
Military helicopters like the AH-64D Apache Longbow could benefit from a $3 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to test an innovative main rotor system that promises quieter operation, reduced vibration and potentially improved performance.
Boeing will test the "Smart Rotor" over the next year at NASA Ames Research Center's 40 by 80-foot wind tunnel in California to study the system's forward flight characteristics and gather data to validate state-of-the-art aero-acoustic analysis codes.
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