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Old 13th Apr 2013, 10:36
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fdr
 
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Coning Bolts

If a coning bolt has failed to maintain tension due to fatigue/embrittlement/over-torquing, or for any other reason, then the immediate outcome is that the disk is not teetering about the teeter hinge, it becomes some point offset in the direction of the coning bolt that has lost tension. That is annoying in the hover.. in forward flight it would impose some pretty dramatic loads.
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