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by Brian_K_White 1177 days ago
I think it's called a fan and not a prop, because it's a fan and not a prop.

Props employ lift like a wing. Fans are screws.

It's really a spectrum where most props & fans actually posess at least a little of both properties, and there are some in the middle that had to simply be called propfans.