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Old 20th Apr 2018, 14:31
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Originally Posted by bsieker
The most important data the computer needs to know about each blade is not its weight, but its moment of inertia relative to the rotor axis,

And I would assume that when you do these inspections, the easiest way is in fact to just number the blades and their position on the disk with a permanent felt-tip marker.

Bernd
Yes i should have expanded 'weighed', they were checking the CofG or balance on a machine.
In fact each blade has a serial number and each position on the rotor is numbered, thats how it was tracked.
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