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    A Fenestron (sometimes alternatively referred to as a fantail or a "fan-in-fin" arrangement) is an enclosed helicopter tail rotor that operates like a...
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    pollution control, and search and rescue missions. The HH-65 is known for its Fenestron tail rotor and its autopilot capabilities, which can complete an unaided...
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    portion of the main fuselage for center of gravity reasons, while the fenestron shrouded tail rotor had reportedly exceeded performance expectations....
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    Écureuil, one of the primary changes from which was the adoption of a Fenestron anti-torque device in place of a conventional tail rotor. It was launched...
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    2015. The helicopter was significantly updated in the 2020s with first a fenestron replacing the traditional tail rotor, followed later by a 5-blade main...
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    the introduction of the SA 365 N1, which had a substantially redesigned Fenestron anti-torque device, and with the SA 365 N2, which was equipped with more...
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    Aviation, and later by Aérospatiale. It is the first helicopter to feature a fenestron tail instead of a conventional tail rotor, as well as being the first...
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  • Thumbnail for Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota
    the mainstream civilian model, featured a number of changes such as a fenestron tail rotor (ducted fan), more powerful engines, FADEC, and enhanced avionics...
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    reciprocating-engine helicopters. These technologies included Eurocopter's Fenestron anti-torque shrouded tail rotor and Spheriflex main rotor, in addition...
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    prominence are the three-bladed Speriflex main rotor head and the eight-bladed fenestron anti-torque tail rotor; these have been partially credited with contributing...
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    rotors. A tail-rotor which is recessed into the fairing of the tail (a fenestron) reduces the noise level directly below the aircraft, which is useful...
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    anti-torque controls instead of the tail rotor, such as the ducted fan (called Fenestron or FANTAIL) and NOTAR. NOTAR provides anti-torque similar to the way a...
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    bearingless rotor hub along with a Fenestron-type anti-torque tail rotor (an enclosed tail-fan unit). The Fenestron uses eight asymmetrically spaced blades...
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    three most common controls used today are the tail rotor, Eurocopter's Fenestron (also called a fantail), and MD Helicopters' NOTAR. The number of rotors...
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    aerodynamic features, such as the rotor blades, biplane stabilizer and canted fenestron, for the developing Airbus Helicopters H160 helicopter. In 2015, Airbus...
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    In the late 1990s, the design was revised with the introduction of the Fenestron tail rotor system, an advanced rigid main rotor, composite materials,...
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  • helicopter (the Aérospatiale Alouette II of 1955); the introduction of the Fenestron shrouded tail rotor (on the Gazelle of 1968); the first helicopter certified...
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    in 1993 and entered PLA service in 1994. The Z-9B features an 11-blade Fenestron faired-in tail rotor with wider-chord, all-composite blades replacing...
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    license-built versions of the Dauphin helicopters. The Z-19 features a fenestron tail, reducing the noise level and therefore allowing it to achieve some...
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    Experimental variant of the Hind-A, one of which was used to test the Fenestron tail rotor. Mi-24F (Hind-A) Modified Hind-A with seven reinforcing ribs...
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  • Thumbnail for NOTAR
    MD Explorer: a twin-engine, eight-seat light helicopter Coaxial rotors Fenestron Intermeshing rotors (synchropter) Tandem rotors Tip jet rotor Youngcopter...
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    pioneering role in the fields of aviation (nacelle, empennage, fuselage, fenestron, aileron, altimeter, canard, decalage, monocoque, turbine) and automobile...
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  • Thumbnail for Eurocopter AS565 Panther
    turboshaft engines, which drives the rotorcraft's main rotor as well as the fenestron anti-torque tail rotor device. The flight profile of the Panther has been...
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  • Thumbnail for Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil
    progressively improved. On 6 February 1987, a prototype AS350 flew with a fenestron tail-rotor in the place of its conventional counterpart. On 1 March 1997...
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  • being first made by Sud Aviation. In the later 1960s, he developed the fenestron design for a helicopter's rear tail rotor, with Paul Fabre, the aerodynamicist...
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    performance and controllability enhancements. It is disputed which of the fenestron and NOTAR approaches produces less noises. Boeing retains the design rights...
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  • Thumbnail for Aérospatiale SA 360 Dauphin
    heavily upon several of Aérospatiale's other rotorcraft, having adopted the fenestron anti-torque device of the Gazelle and the main rotor system of the Alouette...
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    (12.19 m) Main rotor area: 443 sq ft (41.2 m2) 5-bladed main rotor with fenestron tail rotor Blade sections: - root: Boeing VR-12; tip: Sikorsky SSC-A09...
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  • Thumbnail for Ducted fan
    motor. A kind of ducted fan, known as a fantail or by the trademark name Fenestron, is also used to replace tail rotors on helicopters. Ducted fans are favored...
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  • Thumbnail for Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle
    three-bladed main rotor with a diameter of 7.2 meters (24 feet), an enclosed "fenestron" tail rotor favored by the French, and landing skips. There is a sensor...
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