- teetering rotor
- An arrangement in which a pair of rotor blades are joined at the hub, which is free to move in a flapping sense, with the flapping hinge line lying on the rotor axis. Also called a seesaw rotor.
Aviation dictionary. 2014.
teetering rotor
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