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Old 14th Mar 2014, 08:45
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H Peacock
 
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No gyroscopic precession? Well I've been lucky enough to fly several types of helicopters as well as some big piston-propellor fixed-wing aircraft. I can confirm that, certainly on the fixed-wing propellor types, they all suffered the effects of gyroscopic precession from the propellor.

The big difference between a stall turn left and one to the right was caused directly by a combination of the propellor slipstream effect and the gyroscopic precession. During the take-off run on the tail-wheel types you definitely get a pronounced yaw as you lift the tail, again caused by the nose-down torque applied to the rotating propellor being translated into a yaw.

Are we saying these gyroscopic forces don't apply to helicopters?
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