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minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoAustralia just scrapped theirs after a few people died in one. They seem inherently unstable. One fan stops working at the same speed as the other and wheeeee.
minus-squareatx_aquarian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoI read that the rotors share a common drive shaft that runs all the way across to keep them locked in sync and so one engine can power both equally. I guess they feather the blades differentially to control bank angle?
minus-squareWFloyd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoNot an aeronautical engineer, but that’s how all helicopters work in general, they change rotor pitch with constant angular velocity.
Australia just scrapped theirs after a few people died in one.
They seem inherently unstable. One fan stops working at the same speed as the other and wheeeee.
I read that the rotors share a common drive shaft that runs all the way across to keep them locked in sync and so one engine can power both equally. I guess they feather the blades differentially to control bank angle?
Not an aeronautical engineer, but that’s how all helicopters work in general, they change rotor pitch with constant angular velocity.