Hello everyone, I am new to this forum so my name is Gabriel. How come an RC airplane's propeller is backwards compared to a real life propeller. An RC propeller turns counter-clockwise but a real life one turns clockwise. I wonder why they designed an RC one like that. Thanks for any input!

Hi Gabriel and welcome...

Most full-scale propellers also rotate counter-clockwise, as viewed from the front of the plane. Clockwise from the cockpit perspective.

Yup

You may also notice that when something is spinning really fast, it goes the way it's spinning, then it seems to go the other way.

:spinnyeye !

Used to stand on the right float behind the prop on my Dad's taylorcraft float plane and hand prop it. I KNOW which way
they go.

Last time I checked, they spun the same way, xcept on the right engine of a counter rotating twin, or in the case of the P-38 lightning, the left engine. They spin backwards.

Ever notice most American helicopter rotors spin counter-clockwise when viewing it from the top and European helicopter spin clockwise?

What do you expect from people who drive on the wrong side of the road?

Wrong side of the road?? I thought it was like Australia where the toilet spins backward.....