A cyclic stick (or 'cyclic') steers a helicopter much like the joystick in a fixed wing aircraft. It changes the pitch or feathering angle of the roto

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A cyclic stick (or 'cyclic') steers a helicopter much like the joystick in a fixed wing aircraft. It changes the pitch or feathering angle of the rotor blades cyclically (dependent on their position about the centre of rotation) so that all blades have the same angle at a given point in the cycle.

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Size: 5128px × 3408px
Photo credit: © MARK WILLIAMSON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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