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Re: Torque
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2009, 08:27:34 AM »
Torque is when you wake up in the morning and have to pee really bad. You go to the toilet, push it down, and your feet fly off the floor.


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Re: Torque
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2009, 08:29:14 AM »
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Re: Torque
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2009, 08:32:46 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2009, 09:16:53 AM »
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« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2009, 02:11:46 PM »
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Re: Torque
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2009, 02:18:23 PM »
Torque is when you wake up in the morning and have to pee really bad. You go to the toilet, push it down, and your feet fly off the floor.

Wouldn't that be thrust?  I'm pretty sure torque is what causes you to miss the toilet towards whatever direction your dominant hand is when you don't hold it on target.
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Re: Torque
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2009, 02:26:36 PM »
Torque is when you wake up in the morning and have to pee really bad. You go to the toilet, push it down, and your feet fly off the floor.


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Re: Torque
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2009, 06:30:25 PM »
Wouldn't that be thrust?  I'm pretty sure torque is what causes you to miss the toilet towards whatever direction your dominant hand is when you don't hold it on target.

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Re: Torque
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2009, 07:34:59 PM »
Torque is when you wake up in the morning and have to pee really bad. You go to the toilet, push it down, and your feet fly off the floor.


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Re: Torque
« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2009, 07:51:04 PM »
You also have the gyroscopic precession effect of the propeller - that is also trying to yaw the airplane to the left.  That 12 ft long, 4 bladed prop in something like a '51 is quite a powerful gyroscope.

That's why the nose wants to yaw further to the left as you raise the tail - the force is being applied at the 12 o' clock - but it is felt 90 degrees in the direction of rotation - so at the 3 o'clock position (from the pilots viewpoint). 

Airplanes like Spit 14, have the prop / engine turning in the opposite direction, so the forces (except for torque, which is trying to go opposite the direction of rotation) are trying to yaw it to the right.
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Re: Torque
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2009, 09:31:53 PM »
Oh, sure...way to bring the thread back on topic.  :lol
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