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• cyclic pitch control — cyclic pitch control, control of the forward, backward, and sideways movements of a helicopter by a cyclic pitch stick …   Useful english dictionary

• cyclic pitch stick — cyclic pitch stick, a control stick used in a helicopter to change the pitch of each main rotor blade so that it takes the smallest bite of air in the direction in which the pilot wishes to fly …   Useful english dictionary

• cyclic-pitch control column — A control column in a helicopter similar to a conventional aircraft. It is operated by the pilot’s right hand. The pitch of each blade is altered consecutively from minimum to maximum and back to the minimum, as determined by the position of the… …   Aviation dictionary

• cyclic-pitch control — noun : control of the lateral and longitudinal motion of a helicopter by means of an adjustable device that varies the pitch of the rotor blades during each rotation cycle so that there can be forward, backward, or lateral motion …   Useful english dictionary

• cyclic stick — A cyclic pitch control stick, or just cyclic. It is the control that changes the pitch of the rotor blades during each cycle of rotation. The cyclic is used to control the tilt of the tip plane path. See cyclic pitch control column …   Aviation dictionary

• pitch control — i. That giving manual control of the propeller pitch as is done in a constant speed unit where datum is moved manually. In a variable pitch propeller, the act of changing the pitch of the propeller. The pitch changes are done through pitch… …   Aviation dictionary

• Cyclic/collective pitch mixing — In Radio controlled helicopters, Cyclic/collective pitch mixing (CCPM) is used to reduce mechanical complexity and increase precision of the control of the helicopter s swashplate. How CCPM mechanical mixing works Conventional model helicopters… …   Wikipedia

• Cyclic order — In mathematics, a cyclic order is a way to arrange a set of objects in a circle.[nb] Unlike most structures in order theory, a cyclic order cannot be modeled as a binary relation a < b . One does not say that east is more clockwise than west.… …   Wikipedia

• Helicopter flight controls — Location of flight controls in a helicopter A helicopter pilot manipulates the helicopter flight controls in order to achieve controlled aerodynamic flight.[1] The changes made to …   Wikipedia

• Helicopter — For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). Helicopter An LAPD Bell 206 …   Wikipedia

• helicopter — /hel i kop teuhr, hee li /, n. 1. any of a class of heavier than air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine. v.i. 2. to fly in a… …   Universalium