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Old 6th Nov 2018, 14:34
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ShyTorque

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If a tail rotor control servo runs away to full negative pitch (some most definitely can do this and I’ve written about this before in previous threads) it will give a situation worse than a failed tail rotor driveshaft. The aircraft will continue to yaw away from the main rotor direction despite all main rotor torque being removed by fully lowering the collective and shutting down the engines. The pilot would be unable to correct this. A horrible situation.
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