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Old 13th Apr 2004, 12:14
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Thinking about it in slightly different terms:

If you have a two blade propeller in the 3 and 9 o'clock position and then pitch it nose up; then the down-going blade has its pitch increased and the up-going blade decreased.

This is because the aircraft pitch axis is parallel to the pitch change axis at this position.

The effect will reduce to zero as the blades reach 6 or 12 o'clock positions where only the apparent blade sweep is different.
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