Strange Gear, concluded - UH5 Sikorsky.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman[_5_]]

[Andrew Chaplin]

Mitchell Holman > wrote in
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I believe that was emergency ditching gear, rather than landing gear.

Strange to see it deployed, all the same.
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[Mitchell Holman[_5_]]

Andrew Chaplin > wrote in
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> Mitchell Holman > wrote in
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> I believe that was emergency ditching gear, rather than landing gear.
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> Strange to see it deployed, all the same.



What is the little airfoil just beneath
the main rotor?

[Ken Murphy[_2_]]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:13:07 +0200, DAN > wrote:

The airfoil is a "Wobble Plate Stabilizer" which consisted of a small
wing mounted on and behind the non-rotating portion of the wobble
plate and served primarily as a means of trimming the inherent control
forces and damping any displacements occurring during flight.

quoted from http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/Sikorsky_HO3S.pdf

Ken


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>As for the airfoil, it does not appear in other HO3S photos.
>Maybe this is the specially-modified HO3S-3 ?

[Mitchell Holman[_5_]]

Ken Murphy > wrote in
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> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:13:07 +0200, DAN > wrote:
>
> The airfoil is a "Wobble Plate Stabilizer" which consisted of a small
> wing mounted on and behind the non-rotating portion of the wobble
> plate and served primarily as a means of trimming the inherent control
> forces and damping any displacements occurring during flight.
>
> quoted from http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/Sikorsky_HO3S.pdf
>
> Ken
>

Thanks for the update.