You may be one of the fortunate few who've had the opportunity to travel by helicopter, or perhaps your curiosity about these aircraft goes beyond merely watching them fly overhead occasionally. Whatever the case, if you want to know everything about your favourite aerial vehicle, you'll need to start by understanding the components that make up helicopters.
Regardless of the helicopter model, these aircraft have one highly distinctive component: the rotor (or rotors) which enables lift and manoeuvrability. It's also responsible withstanding vibrations, corrosion and centrifugal forces experienced during flight. Therefore, we can say the rotor is fundamental to this aircraft's unique characteristics.
Below we can see this helicopter component more clearly:
However, the rotor isn't the only component enabling flight. While helicopters may appear mechanically simpler than other aircraft like sophisticated aeroplane models, they actually comprise these key components:
- Rotor blade and hub whose functions are propulsion and lift.
- Swash plate assembly. Provides support and enables changes in the helicopter's position.
- Cockpit from where the pilot controls all movements.
- Tail rotor pedals operated by foot.
- Control cables synchronised for helicopter steering.
- Landing skids.
- Tail boom.
- Stabiliser. Automatically corrects flight errors and deviations.
- Fin.
- Tail rotor. This auxiliary rotor provides lift and propulsion.
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