I am glad you differentiate between blade sailing and blade flapping. It seems a blade stall and or sail under 150 rpm vs blade flapping are often interchanged. Blade flapping which is in my opinion is related to the mechanism designed to alleviate asymmetric lift ie the teeter bar and rotor head design is misused. Juan de la Cierva invented the blade flapping hinge and later the lead lag hinge which allowed the first successful autogyro to take to the air. I don’t know what to do about the misuse of the words. Blade Flap vs Blade teeter? Thank you for your efforts to educate us.
Dear Sir , Thank you for all the info you provide . I have a Benson M8 with the 72 Hp. McCullough engine . I spent 5 days on a engine dyno , my goal was to tune this engine to run on 97 octane fuel . I was successful , the truth is this engine would only make 41Hp. at 3400rpm. with a 24X50" wood propeller , that's it ! I think if one was to put much more Hp. on this air frame it would be very difficult to fly ! just my opinion .
Will deffo make the effort to watch this Phil when I'm at work and can make use of the WiFi, just gotta pick a day when I'm doing sod all....Which is the majority 🤣
Thanks for educating me.
You left no stone unturned.
I appreciated the analysis of all possible scenarios that could put me in trouble.
I am glad you differentiate between blade sailing and blade flapping. It seems a blade stall and or sail under 150 rpm vs blade flapping are often interchanged. Blade flapping which is in my opinion is related to the mechanism designed to alleviate asymmetric lift ie the teeter bar and rotor head design is misused. Juan de la Cierva invented the blade flapping hinge and later the lead lag hinge which allowed the first successful autogyro to take to the air. I don’t know what to do about the misuse of the words. Blade Flap vs Blade teeter? Thank you for your efforts to educate us.
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Dear Sir , Thank you for all the info you provide . I have a Benson M8 with the 72 Hp. McCullough engine . I spent 5 days on a engine dyno , my goal was to tune this engine to run on 97 octane fuel . I was successful , the truth is this engine would only make 41Hp. at 3400rpm. with a 24X50" wood propeller , that's it ! I think if one was to put much more Hp. on this air frame it would be very difficult to fly ! just my opinion .
Will deffo make the effort to watch this Phil when I'm at work and can make use of the WiFi, just gotta pick a day when I'm doing sod all....Which is the majority 🤣