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Old 14th Sep 2009, 22:09
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Maybe we shouldn't be so hasty to attribute the "apparent" roll to gyro topple of the camera. The aircraft appeared to have little airspeed and clearly a very high rate of descent: perhaps the roll may have been the result of a secondary vortex state condition.

Not the scenario here, but rates of roll of up to 100º per second have been determined for the R22 in extreme low G roll conditions.

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