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Old 19th Mar 2024, 17:47
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Originally Posted by DuncanDoenitz
No, "The blades are not not caused to fly independently to a new position in relation to the rotor axis using aerodynamic forces, rather than gyroscopic precession". If that were true, a fixed wing with a positive alpha would always fly up.

A wing, and the airframe to which it may be fixed, will fly in a direction determined by the 4 forces of lift, drag, gravity and thrust.

A rotating wing will do exactly the same, but adds centrifugal and gyroscopic forces into the mix.
Well there is of course no such thing as centrifugal force. Nor is there gyroscopic force where the thing is not being forced to do something it doesn’t naturally want to do.
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