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Old 11-18-2011 | 04:54 PM
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Default RE: Torque and P factor, why do we continually confuse them?


ORIGINAL: Lnewqban

Once leaving the rotating blade, what force would cause the stream of air rotate for long, if any rotation requires a centripetal acceleration?
There ain't one -
You don't need text books to proove this
simple observation will do-
remember - in nature everything tends to static and equal condition.

The higher pressures irrespective of momentum will -unless confined - simply reach the static or ambient conditions
Even the dreaded wing tip vortices -which DO exist - gradually "go away'
Nothing mysterious about it.