RE: NOTAR

From: Michael J. Rider <jaguar_at_warwick.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:29:06 -0400

On Thu, 25 Apr 96 17:36:00 PDT Matthew O. Weber wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Michael J. Rider wrote:
>>They don't have any tail rotors or counter-rotors that I can see. There
>>are only small vertical stabilizers.
>
>It may be possible that the choppers have a heavy counter-rotating weight
>hidden inside the engine compartment somewhere..

That doesn't make any sense. Action and reaction always balance. A
gyroscope might, but weight is critical in helicopters. It would have to
have a tremendous amount of angular momentum.

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