Awesome that's what I was thinking but didn't know how to describe it. What would be the name for this? With power our opposite reaction would be called just a "torque reaction" with inertia the tendency for the helicopter to go with the rotation would be called what?
In a normal autorotaton at say 500 ft we can build the rpm with the air moving through the rotor system however in a hovering autorotation at about 5 feet we drop the collective which in that case will maintain our rotor RPM and not build it. Then before touchdown at about 2 feet we pull...
It's a Robinson 22. Not necessarily in auto rotations because in an auto we have the vertical stabilizer to keep us from spinning but strictly referring to hover autos
That could be a possibility indeed! It uses a sprag clutch to disengage the engine from the rotor system for auto rotational purposes. Once disengaged the main rotor is connected to the tail rotor via a drive shaft. Which would bring us round circle as to why would we spin with the direction of...
Not for the pilot to adjust there isn't. The helicopter does have a vertical stabilizer but that only comes into affect with forward motion. I did find an article that said the left pedal when fully applied has about 19 degrees of positive pitch in the tail rotor as compared to the right pedal...
Your correct about the tail rotor still running and that's the only thing that enters my mind as well. I'm thinking that the anti torque pedals may be rigged in a way that there is still left pitch in the tail rotor even when the pedals are centered in the helicopter
Well technically it is by a sprag clutch, when throttle is rolled the rotor is automatically disengaged from the engine to let the inertia of the rotor blades drive the autorotation
My question may be very simple for most of you but it's giving me great difficulty and your help would be greatly appreciated! So a helicopter with a counter clockwise rotation rotor will want to turn its nose in the opposite direction because of torque effect. This demonstrated Newton's third...