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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2018
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Andrew Paul Haldeman, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Zachary Edwin Dailey, Grapevine, TX (US);
Aaron Alexander Acee, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Dalton T. Hampton, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
An exemplary rotorcraft includes a power train with an engine coupled to a gearbox, a main rotor blade having a mast coupled to the power train, a control input linkage in communication between a pilot input device and the main rotor blade configured to communicate a control input force from the pilot input device to the main rotor blade, and a counterweight system in connection with the control input linkage and the power train to apply a centrifugal force to the control input linkage.