Instrumentation for Fabrication and Testing of High-Speed Single-Rotor and Compound-Rotor Systems

Precision data acquisition is required to generate a comprehensive set of measurements of the blade surface pressures, pitch link loads, hub loads, rotor wakes and performance of high-speed single-rotor and compound-rotor systems to support the development of next-generation rotorcraft, such as envisioned in the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) rotorcraft program. These data are crucial to validate advanced CFD tools, as well as gain improved understanding of the fundamental physics in high advance ratio flight conditions.