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Old 26th Sep 2016, 23:38
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You are correct, the cap's width serves as the offset hinge, so your illustration does illustrate the hinge effect. I mistook it for a demo of a teetering rotor, sorry.

There are no 2 bladed articulated rotors that I know of, I'd have to do some thinking about why, it could be the coalescence of the blades lead-lag frequency with the rotational frequency

For teetering rotors the body does follow at a long interval, mostly due to the effect of trim forces and drag (as arm discusses).
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