NASA Tweaks Tech Toolbox to Capture Tricky Rotor Results
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 19:12
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Smooth" and "quiet" are two words not usually associated with a helicopter ride, but NASA is working to change that. A full-size UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter rotor was the subject of tests the agency's Subsonic Rotary Wing Project recently completed in collaboration with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.