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The helicopter crew chief can be seen in the floor hatch providing assistance. Improperly rigged cargo loads can threaten the aircraft as well as people on the ground. External loads must be prepared and inspected by trained personnel, and all rigging equipment must be rated for the weight of the load and in servicable condition.
They obtained a patent for the device (French Patent No. 398,545, June 7, 1909). [1] Although its principle is also found in earlier patents by other screw inventors. The first successful implementation of the swashplate was made by de la Cierva in 1922 in his autogyro. [2] In 1907 before the flight test of Cornu's helicopter.
The Bell 204 and 205 are the civilian versions of the UH-1 Iroquois single-engine military helicopter of the Huey family of helicopters. They are type-certificated in the transport category and are used in a wide variety of applications, including crop dusting, cargo lifting, Forestry Operations, and aerial firefighting.
Helicopters with fly-by-wire systems allow a cyclic-style controller to be mounted to the side of the pilot seat. The cyclic is used to control the main rotor in order to change the helicopter's direction of movement. In a hover, the cyclic controls the movement of the helicopter forward, back, and laterally.
This category is intended for equipment that is associated specifically with the operation of helicopters but is not a component of the helicopter required for the function of flight (e.g. rotors, engines, controls).
Military helicopters play an integral part in the sea, land and air operations of modern militaries. Generally manufacturers will develop airframes in different weight/size classes which can be adapted to different roles through the installation of mission specific equipment.
Typical rotorcraft blades have a Lock number between 3 and 12, [4] usually approximately 8. [5] The Lock number is typically 8 to 10 for articulated rotors and 5 to 7 for hingeless rotors. [3]: 186 High-stiffness blades may have a Lock number up to 14. [4] Larger blades have a higher mass and more inertia, so tend to have a lower Lock number.
He had developed a small helicopter model with coaxial rotors in July 1754 and demonstrated it to the Russian Academy of Sciences. [1] In 1859, the British Patent Office awarded the first helicopter patent to Henry Bright for his coaxial design. From this point, coaxial helicopters developed into fully operational machines as we know them today ...