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Let's grab the blade tips of a teetering rotor and angle the disk at 15* and pull hard in opposite directions. The airframe will still hang straight down.
Now let's grab the blade tips of a rigid (or articulated) rotor and angle the disk at 15* and pull hard in opposite directions. The airframe will also go to an angle of 15*.
Because a rigid head disk can control the airframe, you can stop dynamic rollover with cyclic correction.
Hello Ed,
I could have a completely rigid rotor head and not be able to tip the Predator off its tires by pulling on the ends of the blades because the blades would flex.
Now I am even more confused.
How rigid is your rigid rotor?
It appears to me that you have now lumped rigid rotors heads and articulated rotor heads together.
Do I understand this correctly?
Do you feel that only teeter rotors have dynamic rollovers?
The rigid rotor systems I have seen still have flex in them.
They still fly the blades to the desired location.
Thank you, Vance