Compound helicopter and powerplant therefor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4610410
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06632825

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A compound helicopter shown in FIG. 1 of the drawings has wings 12 in addition to a helicopter rotor 14 and has twin powerplants 16 each including a low pressure compressor 18, a gas generator 20, a power turbine 22 driven by the gas generator and connected through a gearbox 32 to drive the helicopter rotor, and a variable area final propulsion nozzle 24 which receives the exhaust from the power turbine. Augmentor wing flaps 28 are provided on the wings and fed with air from the low pressure compressor for providing additional lift and thrust from the wings. The flaps 28 are pivotally mounted on the trailing edge of the wing and are movable to a position where the trailing edges of the flaps 28 obturate the flow through the gap between the flaps 28. In this position the flaps provide a means of decelerating the forward speed of the aircraft.

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WESTLAND HELICOPTERS LIMITEDYEOVIL SOMERSET BA20 2YB

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sibley, John D Watford, GB2 1 11

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