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    Helicopter flight controls are used to achieve and maintain controlled aerodynamic helicopter flight. Changes to the aircraft flight control system transmit...
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    tail boom. The blade pitch is typically controlled by the pilot using the helicopter flight controls. Helicopters are one example of rotary-wing aircraft...
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    fundamentals of aircraft controls are explained in flight dynamics. This article centers on the operating mechanisms of the flight controls. The basic system...
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    and may be necessary for a helicopter to obtain flight.[citation needed] In forward flight a helicopter's flight controls behave more like those of a...
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  • Servo transparency (category Helicopter aerodynamics)
    that assist a helicopter's flight controls, which, in certain flight conditions, can result in a significant stiffening of the controls handled by the...
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    aerobatic capabilities. Flight controls allow pilots to control the collective (or throttle, on fixed pitch helicopters), the cyclic controls (pitch and roll)...
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  • control system, flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, and the systems linking the two Helicopter flight controls, similar systems...
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    may use different control surfaces but the basic principles remain. The controls (stick and rudder) for rotary wing aircraft (helicopter or autogyro) accomplish...
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    autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021...
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    swashplate is a mechanical device that translates input via the helicopter flight controls into motion of the main rotor blades. Because the main rotor blades...
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    company's two-seat Robinson R22, the R44 features hydraulically assisted flight controls and a larger engine. It was first flown on 31 March 1990 and received...
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    Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C was a helicopter flight that flew between Aberdeen and the Brae Alpha oil rig in the North Sea. On 19 January 1995, the...
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    test flight took place. It received its EASA type certification in July 2020, and first deliveries were in December 2021. The Airbus Helicopters H160...
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    engine controls (FADEC) on a helicopter, a hingeless main rotor, and the adoption of a new transmission. The first prototype made its first flight on 17...
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    Vortex ring state (category Helicopter aerodynamics)
    state (VRS) is a dangerous aerodynamic condition that may arise in helicopter flight, when a vortex ring system engulfs the rotor, causing severe loss...
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  • dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, large rivers or mountains. Death flights have been carried out in a number of internal...
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    Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk (category Compound helicopters)
    aircraft's existing mechanical controls in the cockpit. The other controls needed to operate the compound helicopter's systems were integrated into the...
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    The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne is an attack helicopter developed by Lockheed for the United States Army. It rose from the Army's Advanced Aerial Fire Support...
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  • History of aviation – HelicopterHelicopter flight controls – Helocast – Horseshoe vortex – Hush kit – Hypermobility – Hypersonic flight ICAO spelling alphabet...
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    and state-of-the-art electronic instrumentation, flight controls and aircraft navigation control. After the U.S. DoD approved low-rate initial production...
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    Bell 525 Relentless (category Twin-turbine helicopters)
    The Helicopter is overall designed for trips of 50 to 500 nautical miles, and has a 5-blade main rotor powered by twin engines, digital controls and Garmin...
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    Bell 533 (category Compound helicopters)
    modified the helicopter flight controls to change pitch control from inputs to the rotor during lower flight speeds to airplane-style elevator control during...
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    where he was scheduled to coach his daughter's team. Flight history records showed that the helicopter had flown the same journey the day before without...
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    Autorotation is a state of flight in which the main rotor system of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft turns by the action of air moving up through...
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    The Airbus Helicopters H175 (formerly Eurocopter EC175) is a 7-ton class super-medium utility helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters. In China, the...
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  • interactive culture magazine hosted by bbc.co.uk Collective, one of the helicopter flight controls Colectivo (disambiguation) for the Spanish term All pages with...
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    services are the use of aircraft, including both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to provide various kinds of urgent medical care, especially prehospital...
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    with the controls posed by a right-hand position; dual controls can be optionally installed. The EC130 is equipped with integrated visual flight rules (VFR)...
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  • Ground resonance (category Helicopter aerodynamics)
    shutdown may be sufficient. Helicopter flight controls Helicopter pilotage Helicopter rotor Aeronautical engineering "Helicopters - What is Ground Resonance ...
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    or simply as helicopters) were seen as a possible solution to some of the persistent problems in vertical flight. Torque-induced control issues (as well...
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