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Old 05-30-2012, 10:55 PM
MadBlaster MadBlaster is offline
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Crumpp, that doesn't seem quite right based on the diagram you posted a few pages back. Peak efficiency 2.2 at Vmax. but, you can still move down and to the right of the curve towards less efficient (advance ratio increasing for a given blade pitch) as the tip speeds increase and approach mach??? As long as the efficiciency value is > zero, don't you have some thrust being produced by the propellar?

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referring to post #143.

Last edited by MadBlaster; 05-30-2012 at 10:59 PM. Reason: fix quesiton.
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