The engine also has a two-speed gear arrangement that allowed the operator to drop the
intermediate gear away from the crankshaft gear, which was useful when the drive belt got in the gears.
The Suessen EliTop for EliTe(r)CompactSet can be fitted with the new
intermediate gear EliGear 5star(r) for an even longer service life.
5/3/2011 MH-60S Aircraft rotor blade impacted
intermediate gear box cowling during flight operations.
In the fourth month of the program (scheduled to run from fiscal 2004 to fiscal 2010), we experienced shortages in some of our major components: main transmissions, tail rotor gear boxes,
intermediate gear boxes, and main rotor swash plates.
Manual gearboxes can break or lose drive in
intermediate gear.
It has six cogs, and drives the second hand of a watch through an
intermediate gear made of the same nanocomposite material.
The machine is equipped with high quality rolling bearing of
intermediate gear set of gearbox, which prolongs the service life.