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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Drew Sutton, Hurst, TX (US);
Paul K. Oldroyd, Azle, TX (US);
James Braswell, Jr., Colleyville, TX (US);
Scott Wolthuis, Weatherford, TX (US);
Paul Sherrill, Grapevine, TX (US);
Assignee:
BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/473 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/473 (2013.01); B64C 2027/4736 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rotorcraft rotor blade assembly includes an upper skin portion extending substantially a full span of the rotor blade assembly and a lower skin portion extending substantially the full span of the rotor blade assembly. Each of the upper skin portion and the lower skin portion is configured to carry at least substantially 30% of rotor blade assembly loads.