How about a freewheel unit (slipper clutch) - should prevent alt least the reversal part after the power-stroke...

 

Also, visual impact is one thing, that may have NOTHING to do with the actual blade behaviour.

Unless you take a strobe and watch, you might get some "funny show" - frame rate of the video, etc.

 

Not a video, and newer pics are better, but as a sample for optical illusions:

 

 

...scroll down about 3/4 to see some TR and MR blades from a Puma (Eurocopter helo), that are "awesome flexible" - "unbelievable" - "new tec" :))

 

I understand the human eye/brain has also certain resonance frequencies where we see wheels go backwards or stop, so again - a strobe adjusted to the needed frequency will take care of illusions...

 

TJ

 

On 6/4/07, George Lendich <lendich@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

Rusty,

I felt I needed to tell you those things ( I've read) as they are indeed 'counter intuitive' - however your doing the testing, so lets see what happens.

I intend having 6 of the harder dampers. As you might imagine 6 will make it a little further out than centre, but not so far out as Tracy's. If I remember the chap testing the 4 cylinder settled on 5 dampers after testing 4 of the rubber ones. I though I'd go a step further.

 

George ( down under)

 I will leave the video for a couple of days so as to not bog down your ISP. 

 

Hi George,

 

No need to wait.  I have something like 500 GB of traffic limit per month, but I don't know of any daily limit.  

 

I've spoken with a couple engineering types about this, and fully believe that what's required is a very (effectively) soft damper.  Using the Autoflight drive, there is only one bolt-on coupling that fits, and it's made by Centaflex.  This particular coupler only comes in two shore values, which are 60 and 50.  The original was a 60, and the one I got to test is a 50.   One things for sure, it will either be better, worse, or the same :-)

 

Rusty (gyro dangerously close to being finished)