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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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    increasing speed until sufficient lift is achieved for flight. In forward flight a helicopter's flight controls behave more like those of a fixed-wing aircraft...
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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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  • American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle) and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority...
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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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    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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  • flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which victims are dropped to their deaths from airplanes or helicopters...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Proxflyer (category Radio-controlled helicopters)
    differs from the swashplate designs in conventional helicopter flight controls and enables a helicopter to be passively stable in hover. Elimination of the...
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    in the development of the helicopter; stress analysis and studies of rotor dynamics were conducted in France. The first flight of Dhruv with the new engine...
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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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    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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    maiden flight of the LCH was conducted by the type's first LCH Technology Demonstrator (TD-1). It flew a 20-minute flight from HAL's Helicopter Complex...
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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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    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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    Helicopters H135, formerly Eurocopter EC135, is a twin-engine civil light utility helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters. It is capable of flight under...
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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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    The HAL Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), along with its derivative, Light Observation Helicopter (LOH), was designed and developed by the Rotary Wing Research...
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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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  • aviation – HelicopterHelicopter flight controls – Helocast – High-lift device – Horseshoe vortex – Hush kit – Hypermobility – Hypersonic flight ICAO spelling...
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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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    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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  • Cyclic/collective pitch mixing (category Miniature helicopters)
    for finer levels of tuning and greater flight characteristics. Anatomy of a helicopter Helicopter flight controls Aeronautical engineering "What is CCPM...
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    A backpack helicopter / helipack is a helicopter motor and rotor and controls assembly that can be strapped to a person's back, so they can walk about...
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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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