MikeBoyette
Gold Member
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2003
- Messages
- 3,465
- Location
- Plant City, Fl
- Aircraft
- Dominator
- Total Flight Time
- 200+
His drive has a constant percentage going to the rotor the entire time. This makes it a hybrid as Dick describes it. The prerotator as you are referring to it as is in fact not that at all. It is a higher gear in the transmission only used for that jump. That’s why on warm up he has the blades spinning but at a much lower RPM than flight speed. He slows the engine down then engages the second gear to jump and once 500 plus RPMs is achieved he pulls the collective to jump and returns to the 13% power to the rotor at all times.That's stating the obvious, of course it's the torque from the prerotater which the Gyrhino proves is manageable with only rudder compensation
and that was with a very powerful prerotator once the aircraft was in the air. Would it have uncontrollably turned the aircraft if a roll was attempted?
I wish I would have asked Dick about that at Bensen days.......
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