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Old 04-02-2012, 05:00 AM
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Default Helicopter rotor blade angle of attack

I am confused and wondering if anyone could help. At hover, the induced velocity changes the angle of attack from the pitch angle. At forward speeds, the induced velocity becomes less important, so lets neglect it for the purposes of discussion.
So the rotor is tilted forward by cyclic, say at max forward speed. With the rotor tilted in the nose down direction, the advancing blade has its angle of attack reduced by the amount of rotor tilt. The retreating blade has its angle of attack increased by the amount of rotor tilt. Both blades are moving in the direction of stall?
With flapping, the advancing blade is moved further to a reduced or even negative AOA which would stall? And the retreating blade is moving to a larger angle or stall?
Most lift is occurring around the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions of the blades. Cyclic tilt and flapping would not (in a major way) change the AOA at these positions.
So the questions are:
Does the advancing blade ever stall during a portion of the rotation?
Is it necessary to reduce collective to prevent retreating blade stall (too high an angle)? Which would also move the advancing blade towards stall (too low an angle). Therefore, should collective be tied in to the cyclic to prevent to much collective pitch angle?
Is the primary purpose of delta3 to reduce blade stall, and thereby allowing greater forward speed?
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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