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Why no push-props

1,146 moomoo  8.0 years ago

how come there is so little planes in simple planes that innovate the reverse-rotation option on the propeller engine's .

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    If you put a pusher and tractor engine inline with one another, you get twice the thrust with only the drag of a single engine.

    4.8 years ago
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    55.4k Beefy

    even jets dont have reversers

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    1,146 moomoo

    @PuhBuhGuh sorry I meant inverting the blade pitch, my bad

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    3,802 PuhBuhGuh

    To make a pusher prop, you invert the blade pitch. The reverse rotation just makes the prop spin the other way, useful for tourque and preventing roll

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    1,146 moomoo

    @IStoleYourMeme but if you use a push-pull design you can have two propeller engines and don't have to mess with the planes wings.

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    reverse rotation does nothing ingame (although irl it's used in multi-engine aircraft to get rid of torque), it's the pitch that determines direction of force aka push or pull

    8.0 years ago