NASA STUDIES NOISE REDUCTION FOR CIVIL TILTROTOR PROGRAM

NASA/Langley Research Center plans to conduct a series of noise tests beginning in July, 1997, using the second prototype Bell XV-15 tiltrotor aircraft. The tests will center on ways to reduce blade vortex interaction during the approach to landing phase by varying nacelle angle and flying segmented...

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