Especially when the retreating blade's speed goes to zero, now there's a
stalled airfoil! And when the advancing blade is approaching mach and you
start getting the flutters and all that goes with that, wow it's amazing
that the fling wing design even flies.
Dave
1141 XF/VOT
----- Original Message -----
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
To: Clay, Dale <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: Tires
> You are right. It was the 200 that I was fussing over.
> Skip (Lockheed rigid rotors exceeded 200 as do others)
>
>
> At 06:41 AM 3/6/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Skip,
> >
> >dissymetry of lift happens for all designs of rotors. Articulating the
> >blades just delays the point at which retreating blade stall happens.
> >
> >Dale C.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Skip Higginbotham [mailto:saltrat@pro-blend.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:14 PM
> > To: Keith Turk; land-speed@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Tires
> >
> > Well...........maybe articulated rotors but that is not
> >really true for
> > rigid rotors.
> > Skip
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