Study of Army Design Hover Criteria

Abstract

What altitude and temperature combination should be specified as a design point to ensure world-wide vertical flight capability for U.S. Army helicopters? This question was answered in 1970 by Robert Bellaire and Lieutenant William Bousman for the development of the Army's 2nd generation of helicopters (1970-1981). An update of the 1970 study is in progress. This update includes recent climatological and terrain data collected and processed by the use of the U.S.A.F. climatological model to represent areas between stations for a specific area. Regions of the world included in the 1970 study, as well as new relevant world regions are included in the new study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1042269

Entities

People

  • Douglas V. Horacek
  • Mark E. Calvert

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Army Aviation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • California
  • Elevation
  • Engineering
  • Helicopters
  • Military Operations
  • North Carolina
  • Numbers
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Climatology
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.