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Old 16th September 2018 | 18:09
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From: EGDC
If you can relieve the stresses that occur from flapping and coning by using a hinge (mechanical or elastomeric) why would you go to all the trouble of engineering a complex solution to a problem you have already solved?

You have to make a blade now that bends and twists enough to absorb all the periodic lift changes without transmitting them back to the mast and fuselage as well as making a control system to input that twisting when you want it to happen. Good luck, but why bother?
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