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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2014
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Bryan S. Cotton, Poplar Grove, IL (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
An aircraft is provided and includes an airframe, first and second main rotors rotatably supported on the airframe to rotate about a rotational axis in opposite directions, first and second emitters disposed on an emitter blade of the second main rotor, each of the first and second emitters being configured to emit an emission toward a detector blade of the first main rotor, a detector disposed on the detector blade of the first main rotor, the detector being configured to detect the emissions of the first and second emitters and a flight computer which determines a clearance between the first and second main rotors in accordance with detections of the emissions by the detector.