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Old 1st Jun 2012, 17:47
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India Four Two - although the TR is producing a turning moment about the rotor mast, it is also producing a translating force sideways because the aircraft isn't fixed in space, it is just hung under the MR and it doesn't take much to move it in any direction. That force is always there, even in forward flight such that the aircraft is always sideslipping (to a small degree) even in the cruise - it is called inherent sideslip.

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