The Helicopter Department of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR-Institute of Flight Systems in Braunschweig is home to the Rotor Test Stand, also known as ...

The General Rotor Model System test stand that we were using was built in the 1970’s and it was scaled to meet the requirements of full-scale concepts of the day, which used 1970’s engine ...

The topic of rotor test facilities encompasses the design, development and operation of rotating test stands. These facilitate experiments that take into account the rotational influence of components ...

The test stand used during the experiment had the rotor shaft oriented horizontally to allow researchers to make acoustic measurements. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL ...

Safran this week inaugurated a ground testbed for a full-scale counter-rotating open-rotor engine in Istres in ... Safran now has an 864,000-sq.-ft. test stand, the only one of its kind ...

Bell just released a video showing how its folding rotor design works on a high-speed sled in advance of integrating it on a DARPA X-plane. DARPA’s SPRINT (Speed and Runway Independent ...

AgustaWestland's new transmission test stand at its U.S. facility in Philadelphia can be used for testing intermediate and tail rotor gear boxes.

Helicopters regularly have to get their rotor blades inspected, ... Although the BladeSense project began in 2015, it was recently put to the test on a helicopter for the first time.

LYON, France—Safran this week inaugurated a ground testbed for a full-scale counter-rotating open-rotor (CROR) engine in Istres in southeast France, marking key progress in the EU-funded ...