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Old 4th Aug 2017, 16:17
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
It's got big vertical stabilisers which can help it weathervane into wind and combinations of rotor downwash and crosswind can affect the coanda flow on the tailboom.
Don't rely on wikipedia ffs.
Ok, the wiki article is not that great on a second glance. But in any case, my point was that an uncommanded yaw (yes, technically not necessarily LTE) can be caused by effects which are independent of TR/NOTAR, like the wathervane effect caused by shape of the fuselage or wind/gusts countering the thrust direction of the TR/NOTAR.
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