Shawn. Perhaps you were too busy reading your own dribble when I wrote this (below)? I typed it a little slower just for you. Perhaps the PC amongst us would prefer the marines not refer to that fantastic peice of engineering as the homo head, but the gay head. Doubt it, the marines don't care what either you, I or anyone for that matter think they should describe a rotor head as.
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Best means: “Better than ALL others”.
If a fully articulated rotor Can Do ALL the things a rigid or semi rigid rotor can do, then it is simply the Best.
So, regardless of the mission, weight, cost, small, large medium airframe, simplicity, complexity, cuteness, material, blah, blah blah, (get the idea?), if one rotor system can do ALL of this and the other rotor systems cannot, then it is “Better than the others” or BEST.
And yes, I agree the BEST thing to happen to rotor systems is the elastomeric bearing.
BTW, a one-piece fully articulated rotor system would look like the H-60, H-3, H-53 or H-92 not the two rotor hubs laying atop one another which has been described by the marines as the “homo-head”. Yeah, a lot of thought went into that system!