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- From: bill@ssr.hp.com (Bill Chidester)
- Subject: Re: Jet engines...
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:51:11 GMT
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- David Svoboda (svoboda@rtsg.mot.com) wrote:
- :| a multibladed prop (or fan) inside a shroud. There are also stationary
- :| blades which serve to "unscrew" the air, resulting in a more laminar airflow
-
- : Laminar? I think not.
-
- I was careful to use the precisely vague "more laminar" since it's not
- nearly as efficient as contra-rotating fans. If you have a right hand
- prop spinning opposite to a left hand prop, near enough to be tightly
- coupled, the result is three times thrust, instead of the intuitively
- expected two times thrust.
-
- It's the translation of the air motion spinning around the axis of travel
- into air that is moving in a column parallel to the axis that gives the
- "gain". At any rate, the static blades are there to translate rotational
- force to linear force, but there isn't an equal amount of opposite force
- at opposite rotational frequency, so there's not as much "gain" realized
- by using static blades.
-
- If somebody wanted to advance the state of RC modeling, they could develop
- an affordable contra-rotating transmission for the RC airplane engine. It
- would pay for itself by fixing tail heavy planes and giving a .40 size
- engine .60 sized performance. Not to mention calming the "take off, roll
- left" effects for beginners. You could also break two props at once...
-
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- Bill Chidester Fan Engineer 1969
- (Retired) 1970
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