On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 17:57, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Vivian Meazza -- Saturday 08 January 2005 18:46: > > My rotary wing experience is very limited, but I seem to remember that > > the advancing/retreating blade effect, which you correctly describe, is > > at least in part compensated by hinging the blades so that they flap up > > and down and fore and aft. > > Yes. But the bo105 doesn't have flapping hinges. :-) > > m. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
I've just been googling about tying to find out more about the normal cruise orientation for bo105s. In my travels I discovered from several sources that on the bo105 and most other European helis, the mainrotor should rotate clockwise when viewed from above and as such, the torque forces are opposite to American helis. As far as I can discover this applies to all of the Eurocopter models which have a 'normal' configuration. As far as I can see, the animation and the torque forces on the FlightGear bo105 go in the opposite direction to the real aircraft. Dave Martin CORRECTION: Just to correct myself a moment before I was going to post. After studying several pictures of Eurocopter types, the bo105 seems to be the exception with a counter-clockwise rotating main-rotor while the others rotate clockwise. Dave Martin _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
