PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Chinooks, further upgrade for forward flight in gyroplane mode
Old 28th Jan 2018, 20:55
  #7 (permalink)  
PDR1
 
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Mordor
Posts: 1,315
Received 54 Likes on 29 Posts
The "compound helicopter" operates on the principle that in the cruise the wing generates the lift to carry the weight while the rotor is run at zero (collective) pitch and is just used for pitch/roll control (cyclic). At zero pitch there is no retreating-blade stall. But this is only true for a proper compound helicopter where there is both a fixed wing AND a separate means of forward propulsion.

PDR
PDR1 is offline