ORIGINAL: opjose
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When they throttle it back beyond the pitch speed, the plane slows down quickly to the pitch speed of the blade.
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It just occured to me that certain prop driven transport or reconnaissance planes (real airplanes) that are designed to land on carriers have those "paddle wheel" type props as well (if my visual memory serves me correctly). Reducing throttle with props like that I guess is almost akin to down-shifting in a car... add to that, that they have turbo engines with variable pitch.