noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
main
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If this attitude can be maintained throughout the roll, then the model will be continuously pulled forward by the main rotor .
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Turning to the right-with the torque-would make more power avail-able to the main rotors .
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This means rolling to the right with a clockwise main rotor or to the left if the rotor rotates anticlockwise.
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I have found it to be a great help if the main rotor blades are covered with a glossy white material.
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At the time of writing, however, the ideal design of the main rotor blade was still to be established.
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Some models will drop very rapidly during the early part of the descent while the main rotor winds up to a suitable speed.
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The helicopter warning horn then sounded advising that the main rotor blades were too slow.
■ NOUN
blade
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The synthesised components of the molecule look and act like a rotor blade , propelling the molecule around.
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There was also talk that these daredevils flew with their rotor blades overlapped by several feet, just for fun.
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Dark mosquito shadows across the hilltops, rotor blades beating the air, stirring the ground, pressing down.
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The grenade went up through the roof of my Huey, up through the spinning rotor blades .
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I have found it to be a great help if the main rotor blades are covered with a glossy white material.
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If you held the collective in flying position, the rotor blades would slow and stop.
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At the time of writing, however, the ideal design of the main rotor blade was still to be established.
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The disk formed by the rotor blades is what really flies.
tail
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We have already seen that the weathercock effect due to forward flight makes the tail rotor too effective.
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He had Reacher and the gunner lean out to watch the very delicate tail rotor .
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This is inserted between the receiver and the tail rotor servo.
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Hovering at the front of the clearing, the tail rotor was only a few feet from the rear.
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Fig. 5.10 Lateral trim offset due to tail rotor .
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My tail rotor spun just a few feet from the ground.
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You should see the tail rotor slow right down or even stop.
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I was nervous about hitting the tail rotor on the rough ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dark mosquito shadows across the hilltops, rotor blades beating the air, stirring the ground, pressing down.
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I skidded ten feet when I hit, and the rotors quietly slowed and stopped.
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The experimental results that encouraged the financiers to support a rotor ship were truly spectacular.
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The swirling wind from my rotors whipped the fatigues of interested watchers to a blur.
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The turbine whined familiarly and the rotors blurred above the cabin.
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The young man was killed after becoming entangled in the unguarded rotors of a power harrow while attempting to remove a stone.
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This may require new materials - the experimental rotor is built of wood, which Wortmann says has the best damping.
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When I flared, the rotor wash stirred up the dust and everything vanished.