A facility enabling the first ever demonstration of the innovative stiffness control concept
Nine years ago, the Rotorcraft Research Group (RRG) at Carleton University had a vision for a unique stiffness control concept for reducing helicopter vibrations. After many years of hard work, securing almost $1.5 million in research funding and graduating about 30 research students, the group has achieved its goal. The RRG is now ready and able to demonstrate – for the first time in the world – that its unique stiffness control concept works.
To celebrate this technological success, we would like to invite you to the unveiling of Canada’s first and only whirl-tower facility, designed and built specifically to enable the experimental demonstration of the Active Pitch Link technology.
You can see a five-minute video about this facility here:
When:
Thursday, May 24, 2012
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Where:
Building M-22
National Research Council (NRC)
Montreal Road Research Facilities
1200 Montreal Road
Ottawa
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For more information
Daniel Feszty,
PhD, PEng, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton
613-520-2600 ext. 5783
dfeszty@mae.carleton.ca
Steven Reid
Media Relations Officer
Carleton University
(613) 520-2600, ext. 8718
(613) 240-3305, ext. 8718
Steven_Reid3@Carleton.ca
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