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Old 21st January 2006 | 18:59
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twinstar_ca
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Originally Posted by Teefor Gage
At a training school in the 80's, one B47 G2 cut the T/R drive shaft with the blades due to a heavy EOL. The instructor thought they had got away with it and was winding up the rotors again when he had an R/T call from a colleague to say "The T/R's not going round - is this normal??"
would there not have been a feeling of imbalance felt in the airframe and pedals if the t/r wasn't spooling up with the m/r??
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