The BERP rotor blade design was developed under the British Experimental Rotor Programme. The initial BERP rotor blades were developed in the late 1970s...
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Westland Lynx (category Single-rotor helicopters)
specially modified with Gem 60 engines and British Experimental Rotor Programme (BERP) rotor blades. On 11 August 1986 the helicopter was piloted by Trevor...
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tips are the tips of the BERP rotors created during the British Experimental Rotor Programme. Description of a simple rotor: The following are driven...
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Helicopter noise reduction (section Tail rotor noise)
the rotor over a greater range of frequencies. Aircraft noise Aviation and the environment Acoustic quieting Aeronautical engineering BERP rotor Helicopter...
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AgustaWestland AW101 (category Single-rotor helicopters)
in a sandwich construction. The shaping of the main rotor blades is derived from the BERP rotor blades first used on the Westland Lynx. This blade design...
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stones picked up in the vortices. AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin showing BERP rotor with distinctive blade tip profile C-130J Super Hercules showing scimitar...
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Westland Sea King (category Single-rotor helicopters)
principles to the helicopter rotor. Initial trials carried out with active Sea Kings found several advantages to the BERP rotor, including a longer fatigue...
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hovercraft construction. This paid dividends with advances in rotor blade design such as BERP rotors, later seen on the Westland Lynx and EH101 helicopters....
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Westland 30 (category Single-rotor helicopters)
322 engine. Its maximum takeoff was increased and featured composite BERP rotor blades, reduced noise, and a glass cockpit as an option. Single aircraft...
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AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat (category Single-rotor helicopters)
(1,016 kW) LHTEC CTS800 turboshaft engines, driving the rotorcraft's BERP IV rotor blades via a new transmission, increasing the maximum take-off weight...
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worthy of further development in BVI prediction. Rotorcraft Helicopter rotor BERP rotor Wingtip vortices Helicopter noise reduction Computational fluid dynamics...
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Reddy 2004 - SpaceShipOne 2005 - Airbus A380 Wing Design Team 2007 - BERP rotor development team 2008 - Trent 900 Engineering Team 2009 - Vectored-thrust...
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appointments in UK and US universities, was a co-patentee of the BERP helicopter rotor system, and also made a significant contribution to the development...
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