On 10 Dec 2003 17:29:16 -0800, (Henry J. Cobb) wrote:

"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message et...
Why? Other (conventional) rotary aircraft currently within operating
inventopries are susceptable to VRS and manage to handle it by knowing the
limits--why do you think the V-22 should somehow be different? Illogical.

http://198.65.138.161/military/syste...t/v-22-vrs.htm
"This asymmetrical VRS phenomenon, which is unique to side-by-side
rotor configurations, will have the initial resultant effect of
inducing a large rolling moment in the yaw direction."

That's what's different about it.

-HJC

A "rolling moment in the yaw direction"????? Is it just me, or does that
make no sense at all??

Al Minyard