Eli5: Why airplanes have shorter propellers, when long helicopter propellers could move more air?

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Isn’t forward motion created by moving more air?

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Longer propeller blades would hit the ground while on the runway for takeoff/landing, unless mounted higher up than the nose of the plane.

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