Is There a Case for the Tiltrotor?

By Dr J. Gordon Leishman
31 Oct 2007

Gordon Leishman is the Minta Martin Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland and the proprietor of Rotor Systems Research, LLC, an aerospace consulting firm. Here he takes an objective look at some of the performance capabilities of the tiltrotor versus the present and potential future capabilities of the helicopter. The article contains extracts from his second book The Helicopter: Thinking Forward, Looking Back, which is reviewed elsewhere in this edition.

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