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Old 13th Dec 2013, 22:18
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The windmilling blades would be in the same plane of rotation as the powered rotor, so they would be affected by the same aerodynamic forces and stall at the same time.

There were experiments with ballistic parachutes as a recovery mechanism, but explosive bolts in the rotor head and large lumps of rotor blade falling away from the helicopter when the system was activated discouraged further trials.
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