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Old 16th Nov 2017, 08:44
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They used to taper the blades from root to tip to achieve the same thing in the olden days before manufacturing techniques improved.

Having an untwisted blade in autorotation would mean the blade operating at higher AoA on the outboard section, giving more driving force and higher Nr; for the same shape and size of blade, the untwisted version would have to be rigged at a lower pitch setting for auto I think.
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