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Old 25th April 2003 | 21:08
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NickLappos
 
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Tilt rotors have all the degrees of freedom of helicopters. In roll, they use differential collective pitch for roll control (increase the collective of one rotor, decrease it on the other).

They also have the advantage of allowing the rotors to tilt with the tilt mechanism independant of the fuselage, thus permitting the body to have a flatter angle than helicopters, which force the fuselage to rotate with the rotor.
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