Originally Posted by
Jabberwocky82
Quite impressive that the aircraft still flew considering the free flapping blade.
The Bell 222 that crashed fairly recently at Huntington Beach seemingly had a failed tail rotor pitch link a while before it finally lost control. What happens to a blade in such an event presumably depends on the aerodynamic pitch moment created about the axis of rotation of the blade. I would like to think bladed are designed to drive to a fine pitch if any link fails?