Wonderful thread!
Folks!
This is fantastic reading. When I started my PPL(H) 1993 one of the first things I did was to obtain a subscription to Rotor & Wing, and from reading some re-runs of Prouty articles I decided that I just HAD to get "Practical Helicopter Aerodynamics". That was great reading and a really good starting point for some basic understanding of what actually transpires above your head during flight.
I have always had a need to understand things and would instantly repspond to , to take a fictive axample, a driving teachers statement "You need to press the clutch before putting this thing in gear" with a solid "WHY?" Prouty gave me that, and I must add that Nick Lappos´ answers keep my gray cells in motion.
Thank you all! (and keep this thread going so that everyone with a stick in each hand gets a better understaning of "things on the roof")
All the best,
PF