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    Dissymmetry of lift: 2–20  (also known as asymmetry of lift: 342  or asymmetric lift) in rotorcraft aerodynamics refers to an unequal amount of lift on...
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    collective pitch of one rotor and decreasing the collective pitch on the other. This causes a controlled dissymmetry of torque. Dissymmetry of lift is an aerodynamic...
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  • right or left (depending on main rotor rotation direction), due to dissymmetry of lift, gyroscopic precession, and the transverse flow effect. The pilot...
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    produces more lift, known as dissymmetry of lift. Helicopters can control each blade's angle of attack independently (decreasing the angle of attack on the...
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    speed of 200 knots (230 mph; 370 km/h), after which it suffers from dissymmetry of lift. Some designs have successfully created hovering and high-speed aircraft...
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  • producing uncontrollable flight due to dissymmetry of lift. However, with the CarterCopter, the fixed wings provide the lift required to remain aloft. Since...
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    This movement is called flapping and is designed to compensate for dissymmetry of lift. The flapping hinge may be located at varying distances from the...
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    than the retreating blade and generates a dissymmetry of lift, rotor blades are designed to "flap" – lift and twist in such a way that the advancing...
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  • retreating blade, creating unequal lift across the rotor disc. A fuller treatment is provided in dissymmetry of lift. Most helicopter designs compensate...
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    of the rotor sees significantly higher airspeed than the rearward-moving side, causing a dissymmetry of lift. This requires changes in the angle of attack...
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  • flight results in flapback caused by dissymmetry of lift and the transverse flow effect.: 2–20  Dissymmetry of lift is where the forward-moving rotor blade...
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  • than that produced with full forward cyclic control. In this case, dissymmetry of lift and blade flapping could cause the rotor disc to tilt aft. With full...
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    lift towards the blade tip, thus reducing unequal rotor lift distribution.: 2–9  Dissymmetry of lift Wing twist Stall (flight) Spin (flight) Bowers, Albion...
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    Mach 0.9, the rotor disc is slightly nose-up, and the lift-to-drag ratio is about twice that of a conventional helicopter. Hands-off flying was also successfully...
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    lift distribution at all rotor speeds, because lift increases quadratically with airspeed. Coning will still occur at higher RPMs. Coning Dissymmetry...
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    up and down, to compensate for dissymmetry of lift, the difference in lift produced between the right and left sides of the rotor as the autogyro moves...
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    Failures of De la Cierva's attempts to compensate for dissymmetry of lift with the C.1, C.2, and C.3 autogiros, led him to consider alternative means of enabling...
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    take-off, due to dissymmetry of lift between the advancing and retreating blades. This major difficulty was resolved by the introduction of the flapping hinge...
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  • machine to want to roll over, thus alerting him to the problem of dissymmetry of lift that he would have to overcome in order to build a successful rotary-wing...
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    the Sikorsky X2) solve the problem of lift dissymmetry by having both left and right sides provide near equal lift with less flapping. The X2 deals with...
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    of the rotor spinning in the direction of the desired turn while simultaneously reducing the collective pitch of the other, creating dissymmetry of torque...
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  • particle dynamics Dissipative system Dissociative recombination Dissymmetry of lift Distance measures (cosmology) Distance modulus Distortion (optics)...
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  • Penalty (golf) (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2023)
    grips with bulges and/or dissymmetry, etc. In the case of a violation regarding clubs, the player adds two strokes for every hole of the current round played...
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