Helicopters

Helicopters are very complicated to figure out. Lots of things in play.

Moment arm of the tail rotor must be calculated, this somewhat driven by the main rotor diameter. Main rotor torque to be overcome/balanced will vary as the pitch of the spars varies.

You have quite a bit of cipherin' to do. This is still the easy stuff.

You seem to be having a very common problem. Now that you understand many of the details you seem to need to review the fundamentals.

1) To hold a stationary position all forces must be in balance.

2) To move in a desired manner the balance of forces must be disturbed to provide a force of the necessary direction and magnitude to provide the desired motion.

Fundamentals #1 and #2 apply all the time. They apply for pitch, yaw and roll. They apply if stationary, going up, going down, twisting, rolling or going to the pub for a cold one.

There are various "yes" and "no" answers to your posting. If you come to terms with #1 and #2 I think most of your answers will fall into place easily.

It must be about thrust not ratios otherwise NOTAR helicopters would not be possible.

Well, yes, but....................it's the ratio of tail rotor, or tail boom fan, thrust that provides the anti-torque energy to keep the nose of the chopper pointed where the pilot wants it be be pointed.

OP, don't worry about NOTAR.

I think a gyroscope for torque and wind stability....but I would get some modeling time under my belt, and study how these systems work....

"The various helicopter controls are effected by means of small servo motors. A piezoelectric gyroscope is typically used on the tail rotor (yaw) control to counter wind and torque reaction induced tail movement. This "gyro" adjusts the control signal to the tail rotor motor or servo."

http://www.microhelicopter.co.uk/

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this little detail is unimportant on your homework

This looks a little scale disproportionate to the discussion...

Point is made, but the consequence of failure comparisons vary by an exponent or two.

Well,

The OP's knowledge level seems very scale disproportionate to his plan to "design" a complex machine.

Agreed.

Disciplines involved in a successful aircraft design are many.

About 422 years ago I worked for Boeing... Wow, was that both interesting and eye-opening. Learned a lot in a very short time... this is possible if a fella pays attention to advice from those with a little time under their collective belts.

"Collective". Gotta love that play on words!

Nice catch! How about the shirt-tail reference here?

Well, yeah, there is that.

The player that basket-caught the ball was the pitcher, who had thrown the pitch then collected the fly ball.

Thus, it could be said he had just thrown a 'Collective Pitch'.

Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress generously, and management wants me to remind you to try the fish.

Ah, now I get it. Doh !!

Love the pun. Where's Hooker? He'd be all over this thread.

I thought the same thing about Hooker. Right up his alley.

I am beginning to suppose our wit and wisdom are wasted on sathishvh.

Ahh, I see.............. I guess we're not all familiar with these local sports.

Yeah, but those wordplays are cyclical.

Nice!

I wonder what kind of paint our OP should use on this project...

Hmmmmm... nope, nothing comes to mind.

Try designing it with 2 counter-rotating rotor blades...no tail rotor needed.

Or a single rotor with jet-engine tips. (Although that's beyond the realm of Thimble Drome tech.)

Buy a kit, build it, fly it and learn.....

At your present state of knowledge, you are never going to build anything that works, other than to empty your wallet......