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Old 12th Feb 2012, 17:26
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hillberg
 
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The 206 L has the nodal beams that dephase & buckle the tail boom as the rotor Rpm decays on the landing phase of autorotation, The Bell 205 & UH 1 will do a good whirl when the simplex water tank fills with water and the pilots start to look like a load of laundry in an outa ballanced washing machine ( It starts small & grows with the change in C/G and load.)

Bad Txsn dampers too will add to the excitment, Or bad sprag mounts in the Hiller & Bell 47, or a bad isolation mount in the 206 Bs

Did a lot of vibration tests, funny what spinning things do in a helicopter.
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