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Is blade flapping "fully automatic"?
Blade flapping is both due to an "automatic" effect and a "controllable" effect.
The "automatic" effect is exactly as you've understood it. The advancing blade sees a ...
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Is blade flapping "fully automatic"?
Blade flapping is indeed automatic but note that the cyclic control of the pilot will fine-tune it such that lift is equal on both sides of the rotor disk.
It is not the maximum upward travel of the ...
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