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Old September 22nd, 2005, 07:08 AM
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Default Re: Helicopters and rotor blades

Technically the Huey has always had four 'blades', two of aerofoil section, and two shorter counter-weight balances at right angles to them. This was just Bell's patent system though. As Pyros said the new USMC UH-1Y has the same 'proper' four bladed rotor as the AH-1Z version of the AH1-W SuperCobra.

I've never seen a 3 bladed Huey version though (except in crash photos!)

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http://my.core.com/~campholloway/stage1.html

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