Talk:Phase lag (rotorcraft)

Tone
This article was already tagged. It also doesn't meet the lead paragraph style guideline, which would help to make this article more readable. Perhaps this simply needs to be shortened into the Helicopter rotor article, as editing it for formal tone is going to shorten it tremendously. --Born2flie 18:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Note moved from the article
I believe the description here for "phase lag" is incorrect. What it actually describes is a phenomenon known as "gyroscopic precession". Phase Lag is actually the movement of a rotor blade that is allowed to move forward or rearward through the use of a shock absorber to ensure that all blades are "in phase" with each other in flight. This is called the Lead and Lag of a rotor blade.

References:
 * Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, FAA-H-8083-25
 * Rotary Wing Flight TM 1-260
 * History of Helicopter Flight, J. Gordan Leishman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.56.133.2 (talk • contribs)