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Old 17th August 2007 | 15:03
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Graviman
 
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Originally Posted by NickLappos
To build a rotor that has the inertia to allow you to sleep during the failure, you will leave one or two passengers home, and spend that payload on the rotor and rotor head. If protection from engine failure is what you seek, why specify a rotor solution? If you want engine safety, ask for safe engines!
Nick, rotor need not have high inertia if control system automatically does what pilot is expected to do. Not saying no more because Bug may have cash tied up in this development.

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