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Old 28th Nov 2016, 04:29
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Haraka
 
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I do apologise , I misread your statement. Yes , from the outside there is a distinct "whopping", being caused largely by the advancing blade compression of the air, as in a helicopter.
As to reverting to type , this is an old chestnut of a discussion. Triggered in part by the Pee Wee Judge accident at Farnborough in the Wallis when it was inferred that he got nose high at the top of a climb and pushed hard forward causing the airflow through the rotor disk to attempt to reverse. I witnessed the accident and thought the rotor hit the fin, taking it off. The aircraft is naturally dynamically unstable and so has limitations imposed upon it which have been discussed on another thread.

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