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Old 29th Apr 2010, 11:28
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Main rotor stall

Some data from my R44-I scientific simulator (quite a while since I used it..)

First the autorotation

at 80% rpm, fully loaded 60 knt auto





8-curve shows the angle of attack at a certain radius versus the max angle, based on a 4th order viscous flow stall model. 8-curve should remain below the stall curve.

AoA show the effective angle of attack of the blade segments

So at 80% : acceptable stall zone



Now at 70% rpm, fully loaded, 60 knt auto





so at 70% : fully stalled retreating blade



In between at at 75%



so at 75% : very questionable

Still 93% of retreating blade is stalled


Secondly the flair

Don't have any figures yet, but my guess is that at 75% you will run out of collective. So not so much stall, but collective limited



Hope that helps, convinces me not to go below 80%. Of course different TOW etc may be considered to refine margins etc, but I'll keep the 80% in mind as a pilot.

d3

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