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Old 1st Jul 2014, 14:42
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SansAnhedral
 
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The CH-47's rotors are interleaving in planform, but they have a fair amount of vertical offset with the rear rotor plane being higher.
The rotor center of rotation is at a higher waterline, but the disc declination puts them at interference. In the -47 the rotors intermesh at any Nr > 0 where CF stiffening and flapping/coning is in effect. So basically, all the time.



A functioning synchronization shaft between the 2 rotors is absolutely essential, or the aircraft will instantly self destruct, (see: Mannheim 1982)
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