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Volume 19, Issue 5
1 May 1947
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| May 01 1947

The Performance of Rotating‐Wing Aircraft Rotors

C.F. Toms, A.R.Ae.S.
C.F. Toms, A.R.Ae.S.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1947
Aircraft Engineering (1947) 19 (5): 150–162.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031506

THIS paper presents a summary of the method and results of a general investigation into the performance characteristics of ‘single’ autogyro and helicopter rotors, which was a preliminary to the establishment, by the firm the author serves, of a helicopter division.

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