I would think he would need extra weight in the nose.. not in the tail.
BT

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
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"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message
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Suppose I put this prop on my Cessna 150. It only weighs 9.5 pounds,
as compared to the Sensenich weight of 24 pounds. So I save 14.5 #.

But it will make a largish change in your CG. The fuel and passenger
load for a 150 are both near the CG, so you might end up putting a few
pounds of ballast in the tail to stay within the CG envelope. That would
cost you some of the initial weight advantage.

Can anyone guess how this would effect my performance? How much
better climb and how much better cruise?

Nobody can answer that question until you specify a pitch. Any given
fixed pitch prop will be optimized for climb (at the expense of cruise
speed) or cruise (at the expense of takeoff and climb performance) or
somewhere in between.



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