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Old 11th April 2025 | 09:58
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The loss of a T/R gearbox will also cause a large cg shift and nose-down pitch - the pilot might pull back to correct it and there goes the mast bump?

We lost a Huey in 1981 when a T/R blade separated, the unbalanced gearbox came out, fuselage yaw, pitch and roll, mast bump, rotor separation, blade came through the left cockpit, took off the tailboom, and all in freefall.
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