XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
XV-15 litho - NASA's History Office
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Figure A-8.<br />
General layout and major<br />
components of the <strong>XV</strong>-<strong>15</strong> tilt<br />
rotor research aircraft.<br />
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1. Instrument boom<br />
2. Pitot static probe<br />
3. Door for emergency window release handle<br />
4. Nose landing gear from Canadair CL-84<br />
5. Bird-proof windshield<br />
6. Rockwell LW-3B ejection seats<br />
7. Avionics installation<br />
8. Entry door, 2 ft 8 in opening<br />
9. Phasing actuator for tilting mechanism<br />
10. Cross-shaft between tilting actuators<br />
11. Center gearbox for transmission cross-shaft<br />
12. Bonded splice doublers<br />
13. Upper and lower wing skins, 3/4 in honeycomb sandwich<br />
14. Aluminum alloy extrusion front spar<br />
<strong>15</strong>. Lightweight crash-resistant fuel tanks, total fuel 1,509lb<br />
16. Aluminum alloy extrusion rear spar<br />
17. Flaps, max deflection 75°<br />
18. Flaperons, max deflection 47°<br />
19. Actuator fairing<br />
20. Navigation lights<br />
21. Collective-pitch lever<br />
22. Collective crosshead<br />
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For ferry operations, Bell developed a removable internal tank that extends the<br />
duration of flight to more than two hours.<br />
An environmental control system provides ventilation and temperature control. An<br />
air-cycle environmental control unit mounted in the aft fuselage is powered by<br />
bleed-air from the right engine. During hot day operation of the <strong>XV</strong>-<strong>15</strong>, the cooling<br />
capacity was found to be inadequate. To reduce crew station heating, the overhead<br />
windows were covered with an opaque coating during the late 1990s. Each crew<br />
seat is equipped with an oxygen system supplied from a 1,800-psi oxygen cylinder.<br />
Adequate oxygen for a one hour flight with a 20 percent reserve is carried onboard.<br />
The design of the <strong>XV</strong>-<strong>15</strong> TRRA incorporates many features and system redundancies<br />
intended to enhance the safety of this vehicle. Some of these are not<br />
expected to be included in civil aircraft of its weight class and, therefore, must<br />
be considered when evaluating the <strong>XV</strong>-<strong>15</strong>’s weight and payload capacity. Among<br />
the additional items are the Rockwell International Model LW-3B ejection seats,<br />
capable of removing the crew members in flight or from a zero airspeed, groundlevel<br />
(zero-zero) normal attitude condition. The ejection seats can be triggered<br />
independently or simultaneously by pilot command. In addition, the overhead<br />
and side windows can be removed by a mild detonator cord placed around the<br />
window frames. The window removal can be initiated from within the cockpit or<br />
from an external lever located under a door on the nose cone.<br />
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23. Cyclic swash plate<br />
24. Cyclic tube<br />
25. Pitch-change lever<br />
26. Gravity refueling point<br />
27. Transmission cross-shaft<br />
28. Rotor-tilt actuator, controlled by thumb switch on pilots<br />
collective lever<br />
29. 25 ft diameter rotors (14 in chord)<br />
30. Modified 1,550 h.p. Lycoming LTCIK-4K turboshafts<br />
31. Main transmission<br />
32. Main landing gear from Canadair CL-84<br />
33. Cyclic mixing box<br />
34. Collective mixing box<br />
35. Controls to cockpit via cabin floor<br />
36. Anti-collision light<br />
37. VOR localizer aerial<br />
38. VHF aerial<br />
39. UHF aerial<br />
40. Navigation light<br />
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