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Old 10th Apr 2011, 02:39
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DaveKnell
 
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Aerodynamics in autorotation

Quick question, if I may. Consider a helicopter in autorotation; as we should all know, each rotor blade has, as we come away from the mast, a stalled region, a driving region and a driven region.

All other things being equal, does the boundary between the driving and driven regions move inwards or outwards along the balde when the pilot lowers the collective, and why?

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