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disk loading

[′disk ‚lōd·iŋ]

(aerospace engineering)

A measure which expresses the design gross weight of a helicopter as a function of the swept areas of the lifting rotor.

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All this prove that the far-field of the helical antenna with metal disk loading is circular-polarized field.

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This induced velocity is of the air being "pumped" downward and is a of disk loading (gross weight/rotor disk area) and air density.

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