Helicopter Maintenance and its Evolving Digital Needs
On September 14, 1939, Russian-American pioneer, Igor Sikorsky, designed the world’s first practical helicopter with a tail rotor design and single main rotor. This development became a true inspiration for future helicopter designs.
Helicopters designed and built earlier had simpler designs as compared to the current day’s advanced helicopters. They were equipped with skids (instead of landing gear), unaired fuselage sections, open cockpits, excessive vibration, and rotors noise, making them unreliable and risky. With the advancements of technology and latest research developments, advanced helicopters are as well-equipped as airplanes and come with On-Board Maintenance Systems, full navigation instrumentation capability, retractable landing gear, reduced vibration and are quieter. Moreover, impressive innovations in the helicopter’s design have resulted in modification of the helicopter maintenance processes as well.
Source: https://www.ramco.com/blog/avi....ation/helicopter-mai
