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Helicopter's composite folding rotors enable fast deployment.(Advances in Military Materials)
Advanced Materials & Processes, September, 2003
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Called "the toughest combat aircraft in the World," the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopter has a newly designed main rotor blade fold system. In April, the U.S. Army demonstrated that Apaches could be deployed from Fort Hood, Texas, to the Middle East in as little as 66 hours--the time from notification to operation in the field.
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The core structure of each blade consists of five stainless steel arms surrounded by a fiberglass skeleton. The trailing edge of each blade is covered with graphite composite material, while the leading edge is made of ...
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