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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
J. Donn Hethcock, Colleyville, TX (US);
Mark E. Dreier, Arlington, TX (US);
Dudley Smith, Arlington, TX (US);
Robert Lee Robinson, Mansfiled, TX (US);
Assignee:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8254 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8263 (2013.01);
Abstract
A convertible helicopter ring member includes a ring member and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism orients the ring member substantially in-plane with a tail rotor of a helicopter during a first mode of helicopter operation and orients the ring member substantially off-plane with the tail rotor of the helicopter during a second mode of helicopter operation that is different from the first mode.