Re: NOTAR

From: Ed Rudnicki <erudnick_at_pica.army.mil>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 16:37:08 EDT

>>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..

Either that, or they're using horizontally-mounted rotary engines
(of the WW1 type, not the Mazda/RX/Wankel type) :)

BTW, NOTAR is Hughes/McDonnell-Douglas, not Bell. And no, I don't
have a Jane's; I just have an attic for a mind, full of all sorts of
useless stuff :)



Ed

Received on Tue Apr 30 1996 - 17:16:18 PDT