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Old 6th September 2013 | 22:15
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Sorry AnFI but forward cyclic tilts the disc forward but the swashplate right.

In order to obtain a disc forward attitude, the minimum pitch must be on the right hand side - this gives maximum rate of flapping down and a low point 90 degrees or so later (at the front in this case) This is phase lag.
erm ... I'm slightly hesitant to jump in to such a good banging 'discussion', but consider this:

To be lowest at the front of its orbit, a blade needs to be at its lowest angle of attack about 90 degrees before, where the rate of flapping down will be greatest. So, when the blade's out to your 3 o'clock, pitch needs to be lowest.

However, pitch control to the blade comes from a horn and pitch change link setup leading the blade by (not quite) 90 degrees. Therefore, to give that maximum 'pitch down' command in the right spot, the swash plate will need to tilt forward, telegraphing its punch, so to speak, so the blade flaps down fastest out to the right and reaches its lowest point at the front prior to starting to travel up again.

A good old simple setup like a Bell 205 has the pitch command coming through the stab bar, leading the blade by exactly 90 degrees, whereas the Robbie is offset by 18 degrees or so, I believe, to create a good compromise between dissymmetry of lift and the effects of hinge offset (or some such thing that kind of makes sense when I read Frank Robinson's discussion of it, but drops out of my brain ASAP afterwards)

There is a good discussion of it somewhere in the PPrune archives that should settle this issue if cups of tea and good lie downs are had ...
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