In one aspect, this application describes a blade retention system—for a variable pitch aircraft proprotor system—comprising a double conical blade root encapsulated by a split sleeve. Some embodiments described additionally include fail-operational features. The preload of the blade pitch bearings pushes the metallic split sleeve into the bond line with the blade root.
Proprotor Blade Retention System
2024-10-24
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |