3 types of chopper control

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Helicopter and flight control, there are 3 types of chopper control:

  • Collective (Up & Down).  The amount of bite of the rotor blades.
  • Cyclic (Pitch & Roll).  Change of the tilt in the blades on every rotation.
  • Antitorque (Yaw). Rear rotor.

57 thoughts on “3 types of chopper control”

  1. THIS is the most interesting video i’ve seen this past years ! Thank you for what you are doing 🙂

  2. You spent your time as a kid looking at drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci. That explains a lot of things.

  3. I have the same helicoptor as him, well I think so. Mine is a difrent color but the exact same controller 😀

  4. You know, I never really grasped the mechanics of how the collective worked (despite knowing what the collective does–change the pitch of the rotors). Now I know. Incredible.

  5. Helicopters can’t really fly – they’re just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.

  6. You are right they CAN do it, but they are not authorized maneuvers. Usually after they are performed, major maintenance must be performed (i.e. busted strap packs.) Just as a race car CAN go 200mph for 4 hours, at the end the engines must be rebuilt.

  7. For people asking if a real helicopter can do those things. Theoretically yes, but technology is no where near where it would be necessary. The amount to power required to fling an actual helicopter like that would be astronomical. Plus the pilot wouldn’t be able to handle that many G’s with out going unconscious. The apache longbow has a significant weight to power ratio and is able to pull arial combat moves such as twists and flips, but no where near that speed.

  8. for example the wings of a eurofighter typhoon however thin they are are built to withstand the newtonian force of 11 VolksWagon polos EACH if it was stood on the runway.

  9. Canadian Helicopter Corporation file for bankruptcy after conviction on drugs and arms importation. Vancouver News.

  10. its the size that is the difference the bigger something is the more power it needs. If you double the size of something it weighs 4 times as much. That’s why Rc helicopters are so massively over powered

  11. I’m curious as to how the Sikorsky X2 Demonstrator works then. It’s a dual main-rotor, rear facing – rear propeller.

  12. This is how it’s supposed to be taught, totally simple and neat. keep up the good work, thanks a lot Destin

  13. 1 second… i dont know how but all this u just explained i already knew this is creepy im not supposed to know things like that

  14. @Maaartah (note that I have not watched the video) When the rotor spins the air doesn’t just go straight, if also goes outward and in a circle around the helicopter. The air spinning around the helicopter creates the opposite effect of the helicopter spinning. That’s why the back prop is always spinning(to compensate for this effect) when the main rotor changes speed the back rotor needs to change speed as well. Hope that answers your question.

  15. that was not the air and space museum of Washington D.C. That was the Dulles Museum.

  16. Helicopter ninja. So, dare I ask the following: This guy is flying that helicopter like a ninja, this tiny chopper should work on the same mechanics as a full size helicopter (please correct me if I’m wrong), is it possible to fly a full size helicopter in that way? (If your body was able to handle the gravitational forces) Why or why not?

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