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Tail rotor mod

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:18 am
by Nick
Has anyone any experience with the tail rotor mod that gives more pitch?
I take it also takes more power?

Re: Tail rotor mod

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:43 am
by SunHelo Mark
What mod are you talking about?

Re: Tail rotor mod

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:00 pm
by Nick
The factory sell a tail rotor kit that apparently allows more tail rotor pitch travel.
More tail rotor pitch = more tail rotor authority (only if power is available.)

Re: Tail rotor mod

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:35 pm
by Tom
I'm not familiar with any factory kit, but I once flew a B-2B in Missouri that had 305 tail rotor blades. The owner did the installation via a Form 337.

Re: Tail rotor mod

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:17 pm
by seneca2e
Tom,
I bet 305 blades made the B2B effectively immune to LTE!

Wonder if a kit to simply increase the blade pitch angles does exist. Sunhelo mark significantly found theirs out of spec on the low side.

Re: Tail rotor mod

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:39 pm
by JasonTX
I've posted some pictures here of how our current T/R is set up.

http://www.brantly.com/picts_closeup.htm