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Helicopters can be as dangerous as they are valuable, in part because of a phenomenon called rotor wash. What is rotor wash, ...

Ordinarily on a helicopter, the main (top) rotor is mechanically linked to the tail rotor, so the spinning of the former causes the latter to do likewise. An experimental new system replaces the tail ...