Nick;
Thanks for your elaboration of the teetering rotor
and your mention of Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics.
You just came up with tonight's reading.
It's surprising what one can learn from a textbook.
By the way, it is because of your previous postings that I have acquired (hopefully?) a better understanding of things like; static mast, anhedral, plus, plus.
Thanks.
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vorticey;
It appears that you want to disassociate the blade's activities from the rest of the rotor's activities. I do not believe that the activities of an individual blade can be related to gyroscopic precession.
In fact, I would guess that the association of gyroscopic precession and the helicopter rotor has come about because people have been thinking in terms of the rotor disk. They envision the rotor-disk as some sort of structural entity, where in reality, it's mostly a bunch of (hot) air.
Gyroscopic precession is probably only active in a rotating body that has absolute rigidity. When one starts to think of the rotor disk as a rotating body, then their thinking starts to get a little tipsy.
If you think that the above is hot air as well, fire back.