On Wednesday 20 April 2005 22:33, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 5:46 am, Colin Carter wrote:
What would happen if you slowed the forward rotor? Would the imbalanced torque cause the "rear to 'catch up' with the front", thereby get the rear rotor out of the forward's slip-stream?
The rotor system is controlled by a one-way clutch. If the engine stops the blades are freewheeling.
If your rotor RPM gets too slow, your blades will cone up and you then become a rock. This sounds as though some of the strength in the blades is due to centrifugal force keeping the movement of the blades in the one plane.
-- Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9