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Abstract

A helicopter with a fuselage and a skid-type landing gear mounted to said fuselage. Said landing gear comprises pivotable cross beams and skids, said skids being each disposed in an essentially longitudinal direction laterally on a respective side of the helicopter's landing gear. At least one discrete damper is provided for at least one pivotable cross beam, said discrete damper being connected with one end to the pivotable cross beam and with another end to the fuselage. The pivotable cross beam are of the cantilever type. Fixed bearings and floating bearings are provided at the fuselage. Torsion bar springs are mounted to said fixed bearings and said floating bearings, said respective inner end of at least one pivotable cantilever cross beam being attached to said torsion bar spring at the floating bearing in such a manner that moments are transferred from the respective inner end of each pivotable cantilever cross beam via said torsion bar spring to the fuselage at said fixed bearing.

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