A US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, with eight people on board, according to a spokesperson from the Japan Coast Guard.
I read that the rotors share a common drive shaft that runs all the way across to keep them locked in sync and so one engine can power both equally. I guess they feather the blades differentially to control bank angle?
Australia just scrapped theirs after a few people died in one.
They seem inherently unstable. One fan stops working at the same speed as the other and wheeeee.
I read that the rotors share a common drive shaft that runs all the way across to keep them locked in sync and so one engine can power both equally. I guess they feather the blades differentially to control bank angle?
Not an aeronautical engineer, but that’s how all helicopters work in general, they change rotor pitch with constant angular velocity.