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Precession
| Precession | | | The tilting or turning of a gyro in response to deflective forces causing slow drifting and erroneous indications in gyroscopic instruments. | | source: FAA Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A) |
| | | The characteristic of a gyroscope that causes a force to be felt, not at the point of application, but at a point 90° in the direction of rotation from that point. | | source: FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Airframe Handbook (FAA-H-8083-31) |
| | | The characteristic of a gyroscope that causes an applied force to be felt, not at the point of application, but 90° from that point in the direction of rotation. | | source: FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25A) |
| | | The property of a spinning object (gyroscope, child’s top, rotor, propeller, etc.) that resists a change in angle of its spinning axis. The strength of the precession resistance is a function of both the RPM of the spinning object and its Moment of Inertia – or the Inertia (mass or weight) of the spinning object. Precession causes a spinning rotor disk to resist changing attitude. This resistance to changing attitude is fundamental to the cyclic action of a gyroplane’s rotor control. A characteristic of precession in a spinning object is that the spin axis (or plane of rotation of a rotor) responds in tilt 90 degrees after a force is applied to try to tilt the spinning object. The cyclic change in the rotor blade AOA applies a lift force at that point in the rotation, and the rotor disk responds in tilt ¼ of the rotation later. | | source: Glossary of Gyroplane Terms |
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