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Old 21st Dec 2020, 14:32
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Wide Mouth Frog
 
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look at introducing a 20 kt head wind gust to a stationary helicopter on the ground, the disc flaps back but nothing else changes - can a gyro do this?
Isn't that exactly what a gyro would do if it experienced an upward force on the into wind side ?
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