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Old 3rd Dec 2018, 17:36
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JohnDixson
 
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Lonewolf, I suspect that there is some misinformation out there, as the tail rotor control quadrant basic design purpose in life not as you described. Rather, that quadrant and associated large spring is designed to address the loss of a cable side to ballistic damage od maintenance error. As long as one cable remains intact, the pilot flies the remaining cable against the spring and almost 100% authority is retained. What you referred to was that the basic tail rotor assembly is two, crosswise mounted paddles with four blades, and the built-in blade angles are set up to generally match the tail rotor requirements between 40 and 120 or 130 ( can't remember now ) KIAS with reasonable sideslip, as in where one might be if all the tail hydraulics were lost. That situation was flown ( both stages of the TR servo depressurized ) and we were almost able ( in this failure mode one would still have the yaw boost servo which is up forward ) to get back to a hover but could not stop the right yaw drift below 10-15 kts.
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