This paper introduces the Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM) project. The TRAM project is a key infrastructure investment for NASA tiltrotor research. The TRAM project consists of the development and testing of two modular, hardware-compatible, test stands: an isolated rotor configuration and a fullspan model (dual rotors with a complete airframe representation). These two test stands are inclusively called the Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM). The baseline proprotors and airframe of the TRAM test stands are nominally 1/4-scale representative of the V-22 Osprey aircraft. The research objectives of the project, the TRAM hardware design features and capabilities, illustrative examples of the type and quality of data that can be acquired with the TRAM, and the current status of the overall project will be discussed in this paper.
Technology Investigations With the Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM)
Test and Evaluation Session at the 54th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society ; 1998 ; Washington, DC, United States
1998-01-01
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Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM) : A New Rotorcraft Research Facility
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
|Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model Project
NTIS | 1999
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