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What aircraft has the propeller with the highest blade count?
Among all known propeller (unducted) aircraft, which one has the highest number of blades?
Experimental aircraft also count.
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How many ways/methods to calculate propeller/rotor's power output? Which one is the best?
Source: Wikipedia
I want to know how many ways/methods to calculate the output power of a propeller? So far I knew three methods:
Momentum Theory (MT),
Blade Element Theory (BET),
Blade Element ...
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How to calculate lift/thrust effect of adding blade to a propeller?
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Say I have blades of a propeller of an aircraft (airplane or helicopter). The blades have exactly the same profile, size, dimension, and weight, and will be coupled to a shaft with the same ...
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How does one choose the number of blades and the diameter required for a turboprop propeller?
I am interested in the preliminary design of a regional aircraft that uses turboprops as the propulsion method.
Following considerable research online about propeller design (disk theory, BEM...) I am ...
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