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Old 14th June 2010 | 11:46
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Graviman
 
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Originally Posted by Yellow & Blue Baron
Graviman and riff raff to the rescue !!!
Hehehe. Actually i think BugDevHeli beat us all to it.

In a fixed wing the reason you feel a buffet during stall is because the seperated airflow passes through the elevator (a canard stalls its front elevator first so i imagine you still get a buffet). A helicopter shedding vortices at its rotor blade tips is sure to suffer blade vortex interaction (BVI) between tail rotor and main rotor. So the solution is to design a rotor system that achieves its downwash distribution without shedding tip vortices. Queue the ring-rotor....

Maybe Bug will take the opportunity to parade his innovation.

From thread:
All i need now is the balls to try it
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