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Old 02-08-2006 | 12:45 PM
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William Robison
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Default RE: Lets discuss P-Factor

DK:

In a helicopter, with its large diameter rotor at a low rpm, precessive forces do play a large part in its operation. A co9nventional propellor with its smaller diameter, even though the rpm (in full scale) is two to three times the rotor speed, precession plays a much smaller role than the AOA of the air coming into the prop disc.

Bill.