What Is a Helicopter Swashplate? How a Helicopter Swashplate Works 

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Thank you, explanations were clearly understandable and video showing the actual swashplate in motion by the cyclic and collective made for a superb video and thorough understanding of this part.

Thank you for this very informative video.

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great video man!!

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An idea I've had even for your other videos is it could be helpful if a slit screen between the inner part of the helicopter and the outer part of the helicopter. So we can see the swash plate tilt as you move the cyclic.

Have an exam on a helicopter's flight dynamics in just under a month so I thought it would be very useful to see a vid of the swashplate, or "piatto oscillante" as we say in Italy. Great video

Fascinating. And our lives depends on that these tiny rods will manage to withstand the forces when changing the attack angle of the rotor blades several times per second!

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what type of bearing is used which allows the axial inclination

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Alright, it is understood the operation of swashplate but can you tell how much angle will be changed of the blade when cyclic is 2degree forward. Thanks

gyroscopic forces is e.g. to the front with cyclic it tells the rotor 90 degrees before. sovwhat it means going forward e.g. the blade gets the instruction from swashplate 90degree before its to the front.

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Show gostei mesmo abraço. manda mais vídeos falando sobre o rotor principal.

Can someone help me out here. If you push forward on the cyclic, the 12 oclock position becomes lowest pitch position, and the 6 oclock becomes highest pitch (correct me if i'm wrong). So with gyroscopic precession, wouldn't that mean that the biggest angle of attack being at 6 oclock, the resultant force is 90 degrees away at the 9 oclock ... meaning it would tilt the rotor disc left? What am i missing here?

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Thanks, it just clicked.

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VERY informative. I agree with Mr. Leonard in that the cameraman either needs a drink or should see a doctor about his Parkinsons.

If you take a ruller and balance on your finger then tilt it one side it replicate a cyclic input

i knew it is not that simple !!! xD

Huh. So that's how helicopters control their movement. That's fairly brilliant

I wonder what would happen if a helicopter is running on the ground, collective full down and keep it down, you move the cyclic forward, back, left and right, will the aircraft tip over?

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so it is not rigged to compensate for gyroscopic procession?

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0:58 what happens if a pitch link fails during flight? - what is the effect?

And i thought flybarless was just an rc helicopter thing. It's pretty cool to see a real one.

So with the collective all the way up and the cyclic all the way forward ypu would get max speed I presume, bc it's increased the pitch to max level and the swashplate is pulling g you forward at its highest potential

The swash plate is a device that allows vertical motion to be transferred to rotary motion... The cyclic and collective controls activate the lower portion (non-revolving) of the swash plate and the second part of the swash plate (rotating upper part) is connected by push/pull rods to the blades, allowing them to move the leading edge up or down thereby increasing angle of attack (like a fixed wing aircraft rotating at take-off speed) and transition from weight on skids to weight on airfoil. The cyclic dictates the "tip path plane" or shallow "dish" that has materialized from "flat" because of no weight on the airfoils to a shallow dish, because of "coning"... That happens because the tips of the blades are bending up like the wing tips of a Boeing or Airbus wing tips as the aircraft rotates, switching from weight-on-wheels to weight-on-wings. (Next time you fly, look out the window on take-off to visually understand...). At any rate, the helicopter hangs vertically, and at right angles to horizontal in a no wind condition because of gravity, below the turning disk... To transition to forward flight, side or aft flight, the tip-path--plane, through use of the cyclic, will dictate which angle from perpendicular you wish to go.... Hope this clears the waters a little.... Good flight...!

very interesting, pity the poor quality 'wild' sound and the eyeball hurting brutal camera work. other than that showing how the blades move via controls was great.

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This video fails to point out that irrespective of the number of rotor blades on the head, the lower fixed part of the swash plate always has three control rods from the collective and cyclic control rods. This is because only three points in space are required to define a plane, i.e the angle of the swash plate. It is normally the case that fore and aft movement of the cyclic stick controls the single rod at the front of the swash plate, moving it up and down, whilst the two rods at the side remain stationary. Lateral movement of the cyclic control leaves the front rod stationary, whilst moving the side rods up and down in opposition, causing the swash plate to tilt to the left or right. There is some displacement of the input control rods from the true front and side positions to allow for gyroscopic precession effect, but it is not 90 degrees. It is less than 20 degrees, and varies on different aircraft. The swashplate is the most common method of transferring the control inputs to the rotating head, but there are other systems in use. The Westland (now Leonardo) designed Lynx and all its derivatives use a system known as an internal spider system, inside the hollow main rotor shaft. This was originally used on the Saunders Roe Skeeter in the 1950’s. The earlier Bristol Sycamore and Belvedere had a similar system with the spider above the rotor head, controlled by a linkage in the hollow rotor shaft. The Piasecki “ Flying Banana” had a different system again. Examples of all these can be seen at The Helicopter Museum at Weston Super Mare in North Somerset, England.

Was this filmed during an earthquake?

I got seasick watching this vid laying in my bed.

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A failure in the swashplate is catastrophic?

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If just one of those tiny pitch links comes out of joint, your heli will turn upside down and you can kiss the world goodbye. There's no backup link. That's what I don't like about helicopters. All those joints must be working for you to remain in the air, wheras in a plane, you can glide to some extent if something goes wrong so you have some hope.

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please use a tripod when zooming in....great videos but zooming in made me cross- eyed! 😨😲😩

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For goodness sake, a brilliant video ruined by a crap camera, I do camera work, and you have to remember that your actions with the camera must reflect that which the human eye sees