page_title: Transverse rotors
hierarchical_section_title: Transverse rotors
caption_attribution_description: English: An MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 lands aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7). Iwo Jima is participating in Joint Task Force Exercise 08-4 as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group. Français&#160;: Un convertible MV-22 Osprey de l'Us Marine Corps se pose sur l'USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) durant l'exercice JTFEX 08-4 au large de Norfolk (Virginie).
context_page_description: Transverse rotor rotorcraft, also known as a bicopter, is a twin-rotor helicopter with two large rotor assemblies mounted side-to-side, usually directly lateral to the aircraft's center of mass.
  Single-rotor helicopters need an additional tail rotor or tail exhaust to neutralize the reactional angular momentum produced by the main rotor. Transverse rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each cancelling out the other's torque. Counter-rotating rotor blades also won't collide with and destroy each other if they flex into the other rotor's pathway. In addition, transverse rotor configuration has the advantage of higher payload with shorter blades, since there are two sets working to provide lift. Also, all of the power from the engines can be used for lift, whereas a single-rotor helicopter must divert part of its engine power to generate tail thrust.
  Transverse rotor design with rotatable nacelles are known as tiltrotors while designs where the whole wing rotates are known as tiltwings.
context_section_description: Transverse rotor rotorcraft, also known as a bicopter, is a twin-rotor helicopter with two large rotor assemblies mounted side-to-side, usually directly lateral to the aircraft's center of mass.
  Single-rotor helicopters (unicopters) need an additional tail rotor or tail exhaust to neutralize the reactional angular momentum produced by the main rotor.  Transverse rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each cancelling out the other's torque.  Counter-rotating rotor blades also won't collide with and destroy each other if they flex into the other rotor's pathway.  In addition, transverse rotor configuration has the advantage of higher payload with shorter blades, since there are two sets working to provide lift.  Also, all of the power from the engines can be used for lift, whereas a single-rotor helicopter must divert part of its engine power to generate tail thrust.
  Transverse rotor design with rotatable nacelles are known as tiltrotors while designs where the whole wing rotates are known as tiltwings.
caption: An MV-22B Osprey lands aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7).
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