What makes a helicopter fly in a straight line?

Question

What makes a helicopter fly in a straight line?

Answer 1

rotor and tail rotor and pilot

Answer 2

a Helicopter or rotor craft has to propellers a rotor and a back prop the reason it can go in a straight line is there is a rudder at the tail end which is controlled by the pilot the craft is controlled by a stick which is known as cyclic controls unlike a fixed rig aircraft which can only go far word a Helicopter can go forward backward or hover the mean choppers are ideal for agency such as the police since helicopters were introduced by the SA PD crime in Los Santos has gone down  

there are verious Helicopters the populer types ar the Eurocopter and the Jetranger derived Mavarick

Answer 3

The pilot

Answer 4

how about the engine

Answer 5

the tail rotar off sets the torque from the main rotor

it is vertical so that it blows in the opposite direction of the torque produced by the main rotor

but if your in a chinook then you have 2 large rotors that are horizontal

they go the same speed but in oposite directions so there is no need for a tail horizanial rotor

Answer 6

The tail rotor is designed to stop the air frame from rotating out of control on all single main rotor air frame aircraft.  If you have ever seen the twin rotor Chinook military Helicopter.  Its two main rotors move in opposite directions {counter rotation} this stabilises the air frame and negates the need for a tail rotor.

Answer 7

tail rotor

Answer 8

the engine,fuel,rotor(tail and main) and obviously the pilot.

Answer 9

the pilot and the joystick

Answer 10

On any normal single rotor helicopter ( i.e. not a chinook or any kamov type), you will always get a torque effect from the main rotor. This would, if left uncorrected, have a tendency to cause the aircraft to turn around the rotor centre line. To counteract this, most helicopters use a tail rotor with the blades set to an angle that does this for them. By use of what are still referred to as rudder pedals, the pilot can change the angle of the blades, allowing the aircrat to spin right or left, under full control. Some more modern helicopters have done away with this idea, and use instead the jet efflux ( exhaust ) from the engine(s), vented by a duct to a moveable nozzle at the rear.

Answer 11

The tail rotor counter acts any rotation from the main rotor this is what keeps it straight

Answer 12

Well I haven't seen a right answer yet.  The question was "FLY" in a straight line. Let's talk about a single rotor helicopter.

Once your in flight with forward speed (Cruise) you can take your feet off the rotor pedals. The VERTICAL fin will keep your nose going straight. In straight and level flight the tail rotor doesn't really come into play. The only time you would use them is with an increase or decrease of power.

Hovering, the approach, etc. are another question but he asked about Flying in a straight line.

Answer 13

the tail rotor, which you control with your feet, left to spin left & right to spin right, ( ok not quite that simple but bloody good fun )

Answer 14

The vertical tail rotor is all that stops the chopper from revolving around the main rotor due to torque reaction, and keep it straight.  If the tail rotor gets damaged a chopper will spin.

Answer 15

A sober pilot

Answer 16

Above is the main Engine to keep the Helicopter in the air there are blades which twist to lower the Helicopter or increase the lift.

The tail is the Rotor which positions the Helicopter i call that Yaw same has a plane but does not have blades which also twists.

If they slow down instead it won't have enough time to turn or keep it in the air and drop to the Ground.

Good Answer or not

Answer 17

All directional flight on a helicopter is the job of the main rotor.

Not only do the blades pivot, the whole assembly is capable of tilting, with a combination of the two movements, forward or backward motion is provided. The tail rotor is also able to pivot which, in conjunction with the main, aids manoeuvrability.

Answer 18

It's the tail rotor.

The ones above me arn't so bright are they

Answer 19

The tail rotor. If it weren't there, the helicopter would just spin in a circle because of the main rotor's rotation.

The tail rotor cancels out the spinning effect.

Another way to cancel it out it to have two rotors, each spinning a different way (like the remote control helicopters)

Answer 20

Tilting the rotor forward a little shifts the way the rotor is causing the pressure drop that actually caused the hunk of metal to rise into the air in the first place. This tilt causes the hunk of metal that is the helicopter move from place to another.

Answer 21

It's the balance between the main rotor and tail rotor.

Answer 22

Hello,

(ANS) A Helicopter's main rota blades provide lift (down draft or upwards thrust) i.e. helps it move vertically up and down off the ground. On top of that a helicopter must also have some method or means of forwards repulsion  and this is usually provided by a pair of small jet engines mounted above the cockpit of the machine but below the main rota blades.

Tail Plane!!

However, a helicopter MUST HAVE a small tail rota which is normally mounted in a vertical position on the tail of the machine. This counter acts the motion of the machine, other wise a helicopter would just rotate around its own axis in the air and would have no! forwards movement at all.

**Some helicopters have tail fins rather than tail rotas but this has the same functionality as a secondary rota blade.

Ivan.