Serious thanks, Gyromike! This makes very good sense. Would there be any advantage in having vertical & horizontal stabilisers as part of the control system? This just gives pilot an additional level of reduced g control.
I guess blade strike is never going to be an issue since you are directly controling rotor disk attitude. I imagine this has a slight reduction in response delay over teetering too. The real advantage is there is not going to be any complication due to flapback, the compensation for which is why teetering machines end up being so sensitive.
How do you find the cyclic forces with direct rotor control though? Would it be fair to comment that an equivalent teetering gyro could out manouvre a teetering heli?
Mart