Birdy if you get the blades too slow, they loose their stiffness and you can flap them
Then flapn is the rong term Ron.
Fold would be more accurate.
but i dout that would be possable.
But in my own gyro with the long rotors and the amount of thrust my engine produces, it is very easy to slow the rotors to a rpm lower than the lowest rpms shown at lift off. I have avoided allowing them to go any slower as I was warned by the manufactor of the blades that at this slow of a speed they loose their stiffness and can flap or even buckle.... bad things would happen in other words.
A rosco witha a 912 is hardly a slug Ron, and iv spent hundreds of hours at full tap, just before sink, and iv never floded or buckeled a blade yet.
Like i said, it aint possable.
Wot is possable is over stressn the hub bar through too high a cyclic rate for the low rrpm if the machine pitches too fast.
Besides, CB says that a rotor can regain flyn rpm from as low as 50% normal rpm without too much hassle. Thats alot slower than the regular "horse it off" rrpm.
But what your saying is no matter how powerful your engine, nor how light your blade loading is, you can pull back stick and slow to zero airspeed at full power and there are no issues to be concerned about?
Been do'n just that for years Ron, And hold it at WOT, sinkn steady, almost to the ground and never hada problem.
Everythns relevant Ron.
High loaded rotors will have high flight rrpms, high min rrpms, and high min lift off rrpms.
low loaded rotors hare the same.
Its the percentage of veriation that counts.
If the blades a set to fly XX machine at XX load, they gouvern the rpms that suit the variants.
I dont have the advantage of a rotor tac, so i cant give numbers, but a regular move the ferel goes through many times a day is,
top off from a virtical climb, level the disc [ horisontal] , apply full power and go strate into a full power virtical sink. Itd start loosen rrpm at the bottom of the climb, loose more at the top, more from the rapid, high cyclic at the top, and more still till the decent start to steady. mite b e a good thing i dont hava taco, coz id probably never do it again.
Yes, they are ' mushy' till the rrpm catches up, but iv never floded/flaped once.