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The Engineering Reliability of Shaft-Driven Helicopters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

O. L. L. Fitzwilliams
O. L. L. Fitzwilliams*
Affiliation:
Westland Aircraft Limited
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I am honoured to have been invited to give this Third Cierva Memorial Lecture on a subject which has a general application to all forms of aircraft, and which is central to any consideration of the future of the helicopter.

Reliability is a problem, the extent and urgency of which can only be appreciated fully and at first hand by the operator of a large fleet of aircraft, but most of the discussions and documents which have helped to lay the basis for this paper are not for general publication. I believe that this has helped me to concentrate on the essentials of the problem, but there is a danger that the simple arguments on which the paper is based may not carry the emphasis needed to convey to my colleagues the critical attitude of the operators.

Type
Rotorcraft Section
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 67 , Issue 632 , August 1963 , pp. 487 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1963

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