RCU Forums - View Single Post - Is using less pitch on a prop reduces torque?
Old 12-11-2002 | 02:57 PM
  #28  
Fishstyx's Avatar
Fishstyx
Senior Member
My Feedback: (15)
 
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 310
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
From: Reston, VA
Default OUTCAST

I agree, I wasn't arguing that anything other tha torque causes the airframe to roll. I simply stated that some of that torque is conteracted by the slipstream, which rotates in the opposite direction. I was not attributing anything to P-factor. P-factor is not present in a hover since there is no asymetrecial force, the blades interact with the static air evenly as they rotate.

Since the original question was how to slow down a torque roll, I think it's fair to consider the forces that affect the roll rate which in a stable hover (IMO) are torque and aerodynamic resistance on the airframe

Jason