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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Helicopter main rotor blade flex.

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    Previously:

    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/h...462#post135646
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/l...486#post104356
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/f...449#post135588
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/m...677#post132967
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/h...797#post129117
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/h...3557#post78292
    Great video, also shows how the rotor blade pitch changes on each revolution.

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    I can tell there's a whole lot of engineering that goes into these control mechanisms. Here's an animation demonstrating functioning of the collective and a swashplate on a counter-rotating copter:


    Here's another showing the operational differences of the collective and the cyclic/swashplate:



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