Re: Prop Efficiency

From: John Kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:07:38 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "markdrela" <drela@...>
wrote:
> A good target average blade cl is about 0.4 or so. If the predicted
> cl is significantly different, then I'd scale all the blade chords by
> the factor
>
> cl_predicted / 0.4
>
> and build this new prop. The blade cl's of the new prop will be much
> closer to 0.4, and it should have better cruise efficiency as a
result.

It looks like Javaprop is telling me that my current prop's Cl is
7.68. Does that sound reasonable? If so, I'm looking at almost
doubling the cord.
Received on Fri Aug 25 2006 - 10:10:53 CEST

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