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Old 14 April 2006, 06:51 AM   #1010 (permalink)
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Here is an interesting little tidbit of aviation history that you don't hear much about these days.
When rigging old biplanes and especially the old small monoplanes, prop torque was compensated for by changing the angle of incidence of the wings.
I remember first hearing of this back during the 60s when we were building the TravelAir .
In rigging the Jenny a lot off these old terms are now coming back to me and I was wondering if this term is still used by aeronautical engineers and is torque still compensated for in this way in more modern airplanes?Anyway it makes a good trivia question?
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