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Old 17th Nov 2013, 06:43
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Or watch at the bottom of an auto where RPM is low and a lot of collective pitch is being applied - the coning angle is large and easily visible.

As far as the disc tilting, they all do! Just move the cyclic on any type, be it a teetering head or otherwise, and watch the tip path change. Flexing in the blades and attachment hardware, or movement around a hinge, it doesn't really matter - the net result is a tilt of the disc as a whole (which as we all know is a fictitious concept anyway, it's just a number of individual blades doing their thing as they whirl around at ridiculous speeds.)
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