Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Can helicopters be quiet as a mouse or is the technology so secret because it’s not real? and riding a helicopter is always going to be loud. Find out how this technology works and how close are we to the stealth helicopter reality.
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The Blade That Would Make Helicopters Almost Silent
https://gizmodo.com/5481081/the-blade-that-would-make-helicopters-almost-silent
“Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade that attenuates this problem.”
Is This a Super Secret Stealth Helicopter… Or a Hollywood Fake?
https://www.wired.com/2012/08/movie-prop-or-stealth/
“Today ace aviation reporter David Cenciotti circulated the above photo, apparently depicting a stealth helicopter similar to those used by the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command in the May 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound.”
Bell is building a ‘stealthy’ next-generation helicopter for the Army
http://www.businessinsider.com/bell-army-building-stealthy-helicopter-2017-11
“Bell Helicopter engineers and weapons developers are looking at innovative ways to reduce the radar signature of their new, next-generation V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft slated to be operational by the 2030s.”
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