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Old 14th Aug 2022, 14:38
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Robbiee
 
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Originally Posted by ShyTorque
Despite extended opposition here (and in my case sometimes via private messages) Lou Zuckerman probably went to his grave convinced that the rotor system was a gyroscope and control inputs were causing precession of said gyroscope, rather than blade pitch control inputs causing blades to fly to a new position
I don't know who this Lou guy is, but are you sure he truly believed that a spinning rotor "was" a gyroscope, or that it just acted "like" a gyroscope?
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