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Helicopter main rotor blade flex.
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Great video, also shows how the rotor blade pitch changes on each revolution.Originally Posted by Jon
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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