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Old 8th August 2025 | 03:08
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The Sultan
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Helispotter,

I mean it is not related to any rotor harmonic or sub-harmonic, so no .5, 1, 2 etc /revs. These are generally at a natural frequency of the rotor, pylon, and/or airframe. For an asynchronous to become a problem the “and” is the operable term. It generally takes a gust exciting the rotor at a frequency close to a fixed system mode which results in a response in such a manner that it can feed back into the rotor to sustain or amplify the vibration.
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