Patent ID: 11866163
Assignee: PIASECKI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A parking tail rotor apparatus for a rotary wing aircraft having a forward direction and an aft direction, the parking tail rotor apparatus comprising:
a) a tail rotor hub and one or more tail rotor blades attached to the tail rotor hub, the tail rotor hub and one or more tail rotor blades being configured for rotation to balance a torque of a main rotor of the rotary wing aircraft;
b) each of the one or more tail rotor blades having a blade root, a blade span and a blade tip, the blade root of each of the one or more tail rotor blades being attached to the tail rotor hub and configured to rotate with the tail rotor hub, the blade span extending from the blade root to the blade tip, the one or more tail rotor blades having a configuration to stop rotating and to move to a parked position when the rotary wing aircraft is flying in the forward direction, wherein the blade tip of each of the one or more tail rotor blades is aft of the tail rotor hub when the one or more tail rotor blades are in the parked position.