Swashplate assembly: Purpose — To change cyclic
control movements from linear control movement into rotating control movement.
- Swashplate support:
- Open cylinder encircling the mast.
- Top portion is uniball for swashplate.
- Supports inner ring of swashplate.
- Slots in lower sides for collective lever bearings.
Swashplate inner ring:
- Tilts on uniball when activated by cyclic control rods connected on two clevis-type
horns at the forward sides of the inner ring.
- Clamped on the uniball by upper and lower sets of contoured teflon bearings.
- Held from rotating, but allowed to tilt, by a pin-type horn at the rear connected to an
anti-drive link.
Swashplate outer ring:
- Tilts with the inner ring but rotates with the mast.
- Mounts on the inner ring through a duplex bearing.
Updated:
12 January 2008 |
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Born on 07 January 1999 |