Disk loading
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In fluid dynamics, disk loading or disc loading is the average pressure change across an actuator disk, such as an airscrew. Airscrews with a relatively low disk loading are typically called rotors, i
The MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor has a relatively high disk loading, producing visible blade tip vortices from condensation of the marine air in this photo of a vertical takeoff.
C-27J Spartan with propeller tip vortices condensation. The C-27J uses the same engines as the MV-22, but has higher disk loading.
Piston-powered light utility helicopters like this Robinson R22 have relatively low main rotor disk loading.
Pilatus Agusta A109 Flug
Tandem-rotor aircraft
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A tandem-rotor aircraft is an aircraft with two large helicopter rotor assemblies mounted one in front of the other in the horizontal plane. This configuration is mainly used for large cargo helicopte
Disk loading
…m2) 2.6 lb/ft2 (14 kg/m2) Bell 206B3 JetRanger Turboshaft utility helicopter 3,200 lb (1,451 kg) 872 ft2 (81.1 m2) 3.7 lb/ft2 (18 kg/m2) CH-47D Chinook Tandem rotor helicopter 50,000 lb (22,680 kg) 5,655 ft2 (526 m2) 8.8 lb/ft2 (43 kg/m2) Mil Mi-26 Heavy-lift helicopter 123,500 lb (56,000 kg) 8,495 ft2 (789 m2…
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
Columbia Helicopters Boeing Vertol 107-II and Boeing 234
A Piasecki H-21B in the early 1960s
A Yakovlev Yak-24 at Central Air Force Museum