rotor blade
Spinning lift surface
A rotor blade is one of the elongated airfoils attached to a rotating hub, as on a helicopter or wind turbine.
Helicopter rotor blades generate lift and thrust as they spin; wind turbine blades capture energy from moving air.
The term distinguishes these rotating components from fixed wings or stationary fan blades.
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- turbineBlade-driven energy converter
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- hubCentral connection point
- pitchFrequency of sound
airfoil · wind · chopper · news chopper · air ambulance · fan · whirl · thrust · lift · shaft · aviation · slice · carbon fiber · torque · swoop · whoosh · vortex · gyroscope
- bladesedge, knife, cutting edge, scalpel, dagger
- helicopter partscockpit, fuselage, mast, collective, cyclic
- Hovering Flighthelicopter, hummingbird, hover, hoverfly, dragonfly
- rotors
- vanes and bladesweather vane, weathercock, wind vane
- Drone Partspropeller, motor, flight controller, gimbal, GPS module
rotating vs. stationary aerodynamic components
rotor bladefixed wing
Aircraft with immobile airfoils
stabilizer · tail fin · fuselage · vertical stabilizer · airframe
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