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Old 25th Mar 2006, 03:21
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Flingwing207
 
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There is around 10 tons of force pulling across the coning hinges of the R22 - the offset of the hinges means there will be little (if any) flapping going on there. OTOH, there is nothing to resist the flapping at the teetering hinge.
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