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Old 2nd Oct 2020, 09:27
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MENELAUS
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
You can engineer some of it out - contra rotating twin rotors is one way. The Wessex and Sea King had something called starboard lateral lead where the output from the mixing unit was proportionally longer to the starboard lateral jack than the port one - as you raise the lever, it tilts the disc slightly to the left for you helping counteract the TR drift.

Various gearbox tilts are another option but ISTR they were mostly forward to reduce mastbending stress in the cruise.

Which conventional helos don't hover one skid low Syd? And the answer isn't 'ALL of them if you leave the ground power connected'
Don’t the HH-53 and the Blackhawk get round it partially by having an offset tailrotor. ? Given that tail rotor roll on the jolly green would be significant, if only because of the sheer bloody size of the thing.
From memory even with the starboard lateral lead the Wessex and the Sea King still hovered one wheel low.
We need 50 words now on translational lift.
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