PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - What causes "blowback/flapback" when accelerating through transverse flow effect?
Old 11th Aug 2022, 15:39
  #22 (permalink)  
Robbiee
 
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: California
Posts: 752
Received 29 Likes on 25 Posts
Originally Posted by meleagertoo
When I was in basic training we never heard the term 'blowback' (is that an Americanism perhaps?) and the 'nose' most certainly did not rise with flapback. The clue is in the word itself, it is the disc that chages attitude.
As an American the only time I ever heard the term "blowback" was in reference to one of the things that happens after you get into "Low-rpm Rotor Stall" in the R22 and are falling to your death.

,...and correct, the nose does not rise with it.
Robbiee is offline