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Old 13th Nov 2010, 03:41
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if one was to fly the aircraft at say twenty knots along a straight line at say five foot height and forced by use of the pedals the aircraft to rotate smoothly and fluently at a constant rate, say one revolution per 10 secs around the axis of the mast in either direction, it wouldn't matter which way the M/R blades rotated, you would in each instance be using more and less left and right pedal up to full deflection either way as you encountered more and less crosswind effect (as ShyT mentioned) and as the answer to your question.

that is for flight powered by the engine which causes torque,

in flight powered by gravity which produces anti-torque (transmission drag) one could experience the same pedal effects during aircraft rotations about the mast axis, but of course one might need to start those experiments well above the firma terrors as gravity being the driving force, begorrah at the point that it runs out things get kinda solid.
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