Limitations and Hazards
Helicopters with teetering rotors, for example the two-blade system on the Bell, Robinson and others, must not be subjected to a low-g condition because such rotor systems do not control the fuselage attitude. This can result in the fuselage assuming an attitude controlled by momentum and tail rotor thrust that causes the tail boom to intersect the main rotor tip-path plane, or result in the blade roots contacting the main rotor drive shaft causing the blades to separate from the hub (mast bumping).
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