BASIC HELICOPTER FLIGHT PRINCIPLES

Duration: 15 min

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Department of the Army (Department of Defense)

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Explains through animation and live photography, the basic aerodynamic principles applied to helicopter flight including lift, thrust, drag, weight, velocity of airflow over airfoil, collective pitch, dissymmetry of lift, coning and coning angle, flapping and flapping angle, gyroscopic procession laws, and torque.