Questions tagged [propeller-aircraft]
Questions regarding aircraft driven by propellers, rather than by jet or rocket engines, gravity, atmospheric motion, being towed, or flapping their wings.
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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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How do power and thrust curves compare?
I would like to really understand why when talking about jets we care about thrust but when talking about propeller aircraft we care about power.
(THRUST)="Just a force"
(POWER)= work/time = ...
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Do jet aircraft have a better glide ratio than propeller aircraft in general? If so, why?
Being fond of aviation, I play with software simulators a lot.
I have noticed that while jets seem to be able to glide for a long distance even at zero throttle, propeller aircraft need to be ...
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How do propeller planes sync their propellers?
While reading this question, I found that the answers did not address the point I had come for. On planes with electronic propeller synchronization, how is it actually accomplished? I know why ...
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Why does propeller slip (efficiency) change during the flight (fixed-pitch)?
I was wondering how the efficiency of a fixed-pitch propeller changes during different stages of flight and why it does so. I suppose when we are talking about propeller efficiency we are actually ...
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What´s the logic behind the Power Curve?
Aircaft thrust is what counteracts drag, but in flight school they tought us that propeller aircraft are "power producers" and not thrust producers as jets. (That´s because the propeller ...
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