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Old 03-21-2018, 11:50 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I retract the retractable landing gear suggestion.

Swash plate? You have two controls that fight each other. Tandem rotors after Heinkel or Piasecki.

edit: fact checked myself. Tandem rotors use cyclic and collective pitch. But they are counter-rotating so [shrug].
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