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Old 5th October 2008 | 15:40
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barit1
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So we have two opposing schools of thought:

1) The very well informed aerodynamicist friend likes to have the CP moved inboard, meaning outboard rotation, to reduce rolling moment presumably. I won't argue his logic, except to point out the following -

2) Every conventional twin I'm aware of has its critical engine defined (or at least described) by P-factor theory; and when Piper chose to create the PA-39, and thus reduce Vmca, it rotated the props inboard to minimize P-factor.

In the absence of empirical tests disproving #2, I'm inclined to go that direction.
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