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Old 7th Nov 2006, 12:46
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I'm sorry, but I'm have to take this a bit offT (which is quite a feat considering I started the thread), but as I'm not a pilot (not even planks), many things in the aviation world are unclear to me. Here's one of them: Capt Hollywood's pics, which to my knowledge must be of a Colibri, shows a left-seater. Again, to the best of my knowledge, most Colibris are right-seaters. Why does one go against the norm? Given that the Colibri has a CW rotating main rotor, it would have a tendency to hang right skid low in a hover, and this would be "made worse" by having the pilot in the right seat, if he's alone at least, so why is the norm right-seaters in the first place? I'm not trying to revive the "MR/TR moment arm" thread, just give me a pointer to where I can educate myself.

In other news, please keep up the "arguing" over details, I'm learning a lot!
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