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![]() "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... Bull****. You tripped on your ****** on your first post (probably drunk again) and have been stumbling to rationalize it ever since. Sounds just like Anthony. |
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I am into vtol craft and thats why i am into the most efficient not so huge propellers, i pilot rc models and am currently testing several designs
the propellers is the most important part of a vtol engine ofcourse has to be light but todays engines are superb in that aspect Quote:
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![]() "Leviterande" wrote in message ... I am into vtol craft and thats why i am into the most efficient not so huge propellers, i pilot rc models and am currently testing several designs the propellers is the most important part of a vtol engine ofcourse has to be light but todays engines are superb in that aspect Have you reviewed the propeller and rotor types currently flying on state of the art VTOL aircraft? |
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![]() "Leviterande" wrote I am into vtol craft and thats why i am into the most efficient not so huge propellers, i pilot rc models and am currently testing several designs the propellers is the most important part of a vtol engine ofcourse has to be light but todays engines are superb in that aspect I put this to you. If you look at the latest VTOL series of rotorcraft, since the basic helicopter design, you will find the answers you seek. Hint: they don't have screw shaped rotors, for their lift producing devices. The Osprey has main rotors about halfway between helicopters of that weight and prop planes of that weight. Very roughly. Don't you think they would use the most efficient, smallest, lightest form of prop that could be invented to do the job? Hint: The answer is yes. -- Jim in NC |
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yes, I have been looking into todays vtols, they either have a complicated large merry go arround rotor system or a very very highly concentrated plumes of air as in the harrier/F35 jet
both are very expensive to maintain, complicated and yet not so practical unless in military. so some kind of a propeller/ fan/ rotor with no moving part must do the job somehow to get rid with the complexiity and cost and SPACE! I was just thinking of testing a thick-chord fan with 4 blades and a medium AOA. it should be geard to the motor unless the motor has a very high torque. My idea is that efficiency should go up when one use a geared system example: my model vtol/thrust test rig weights around 700grams and teh thrust is around 880g, the power from the electric motor is around 166w the propeller is a standard slowfly 10x4,7 rpm is around 7000-8000 if we instead took a 7 inch impeller with larger blades moving more air at one revoltuion , i tmeans it makes more drag and resistance to the motor shaft.. now if one calculate the required data and put reduction gear to the motor. the thrust out put should be equal at less rpm and smaller propeller and with the same efficiency! I could be way wrong but that is just what i think could be possible |
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On Sep 8, 5:01*am, Leviterande Leviterande.
wrote: yes, I have been looking into *todays vtols, they either have *a complicated *large merry go arround rotor system * or a *very very highly concentrated plumes of air *as in *the harrier/F35 jet both are very expensive to maintain, complicated and yet not so practical unless in military. * so some kind of a *propeller/ fan/ rotor with no moving part *must do the job somehow to get rid with the complexiity and cost and SPACE! I was just thinking of *testing a *thick-chord fan with 4 blades and * a medium AOA. it should be geard to the motor * *unless the motor has a very high torque. My idea is that efficiency should go up when one use a geared system example: my *model vtol/thrust test rig *weights *around 700grams and *teh thrust is around 880g, * the power from the electric motor *is around 166w the propeller is a standard slowfly 10x4,7 rpm is around 7000-8000 if we instead took a 7 inch impeller *with larger blades moving more air *at one revoltuion *, i tmeans it makes *more drag and resistance to the motor shaft.. now if one calculate the required data and put reduction gear to the motor. the thrust out put should be equal at less rpm and *smaller propeller and with the same efficiency! I could be way wrong but that is just what i think could be possible -- Leviterande I have seen battery powered conventional shaped RC models accelerate upward vertically. while spinning what seemed like unremarkable props, so they clearly had thrust exceeding weight. I'm trying to understand the problem you're trying to solve. Has it to do with using a smaller engine for a given airframe? |
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: On Sep 7, 3:23*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: a wrote innews:b2735259-d892-4737-b243-0514e9cd3f84@5 9g2000hsb.googlegroups.com: On Sep 6, 5:24*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: a wrote innews:3bdcc9b5-67cc-4c34-a7a2-41e2a744b82d@z 72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com: On Sep 6, 5:41*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: a wrote innews:14d9aabc-33a9-4fdf-9ca5-78e407249a02@7 9g2000hsk.googlegroups.com: On Sep 6, 3:51*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: a wrote in news:e5fb9dcd-6bd8-42e3-9a50-f6370d188424 @x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com: On Sep 5, 6:46*pm, Leviterande Leviterande. wrote: Now woludnt a shorter prop with a bigger chord(and q-tips) move more a ir and thus creating equal thrust as a longer propeller with thinner chor d? when I tried the patented fan it was pretty quiet *however. How did you try the patented fan? AS for longer chords? Probably not. Think of the *most efficien t wing s for airplanes -- the ones that provide the best lift/drag. They are long and slender. The same principles hold for props. You can be sure if wide chords were better they'd be showing up on experimental aircraft, and they are not. They do actually, and they can be very efficient indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxz1UF67EQI There's also been the Dyke Delta, and the facetmobile, of course. Bertie I don't think you'd find these as 'efficient' as conventionally shaped aircraft, else we'd be seeing competition gliders shaped this way. Those airplane shapes would have very light wing loading of course, but huge wetted areas -- think drag. Yeah, I understand al of that, but the word efficient is one that is often bandied as some sort of standard, but is just as misunderstood. While I know you mean aerodynamic efficiency in it's purest form, the mission is the yardstick by which you must measure the success of an airplane. Gliders are good at what they do, but they're as much a compromise as any other type of airplane. Low aspect ration machines have a few enormous advantages, not the least of which is a huge speed range and relatively low drag at low alpha. Span loading is more relevant than area loading in many ways and application, depending on what you're trying to get the wing to do at any given momen, and a low span loading, as in a glider, has to be paid for with *drag just like any other aerodynamic benifit. Simply put, the longer the span, the more air you're moving around. Now, for some applications, this is more efficient, since by agitating a greater volume air in a less agressive fashion than a little air, you may, and may is the operative word here, create less drag in your flight situation. . As for using that concept for prop blade shape, , where efficiency is defined in the conventional engineering sense as power out divided by power in, long and thin blades seem to win over short and fat. Depends on the application and what you're asking the blade to do. Length brings its own problem here again, but in spades, since tip speeds, particulalry at high cruise speeds, becomes a problem. There simply are no pat answers in aerodynamics. "Monoplanes are more efficient than biplanes" for instnace, is an oft touted example. Simply not true in every aspect. It depends on what you're asking the airplane to do. Of course, particualrexamples may be plucked from the air to prove almost any POV here. You could look at two types of aircraft and compare their performance with a single yardstick, such as fuel burn, but that doesn't make one more efficient than another as whole. just on fuel burn. If the fuel efficient one can't get out of the 800 foot strip it's parked in and the other one can, then the one that can is the more efficient machine for it's mission. That's not to say some airplanes aren't just plain inefficient, but it is a bit ridiculous to say that just because there's a popular mission and most airplanes tend to gel in that corner of design that those types of aircraft are ultimatley the most efficient things in the sky. Bertie The mission that seems best served by short span broad chord propellers seems to be in the marinas -- long and thin are not popular there. Even that may be changing, you may have seen a satellite view of an Ohio class submarine with its screw exposed recently (the navy goofed, those things are usually shrouded when they would be otherwise exposed) *and it looked like something tha t belonged on an airplane. Well, my main drive has short span long chord blades. So do most high bypass fan jets... Bertie early on I mentioned relatively low speed GA airplanes, and for sure recognize the difference fan jets provide. I'm sure you recognize that the high bypass stuff you drive is a different animal, and really not unlike the ducted fan with lots of hardware overhead I also mentioned. Get thy tongue from thy cheek! Your digression was from Anthony's manual. Not really. In fact I wondered if you might be an anthony sock for a bit! I just have a bee in my bonnet about emprical statements! You're not wrong about high aspect ration wings, but you're not completely right either. You're not going to win a soaring competition with an airplane with a 1-1 aspect ratio doesn't mean youcan't make it do something quite respectable. That Arup had some remarkable performance figures. They were far from just being a curiosity in the thirties when they were built. They got a lot of attention in the aviation press and the performance was remarkable. I have some of them somewhere but just going from memory the small engined ones, I think it had a 75 HP LeBlond on it, had a speed range of something like 30-120 MPH. They have some serious drag issues at low speeds, of course, but this can be turned to advantage, giving a steep approach so desirable in stol ops. This is the reason the Navy were interested in the Flying Flapjack airplanes in the mid 40s. Potentially good carrier airplanes with a very high cruise speed. Bertie If you associate me with Mx your judgment is seriously impaired. Keep an eye on that, and if the manifestations continue seek some professional help before it's too late. Nah, just suspicious. I seriously doubt the form factors those airplanes suggest for props would lead to any improvement in propeller efficiency, using the classical (energy out over energy in) definition. If they did, hanging one on a C152, C172, or a P140 would improve things like rate of climb or service ceiling or fuel economy (my Mooney gets about 18 mpg) by about the the same percentage as increased efficiency. There would be a nice market for such an improvement. My prediction is we'll continue to see only narrow chord blades in front of us for the next 15 years. Oh i don't see any change. Toothpicks have, by far, been the most common props on lightplanes for years and not without good reason. I'm not arguing that. But it depends on a lot of things. A lot of turboprops have relatively wide chord scimitar props, for instance. My point was really more directed towards the sentiment that efficiency shoud be described in such narrow terms. Most people want an airplane to go from A-B real fast and burn as little fuel as possible, but that doesn't mean that it's nore efficient than an airplane that excelles in some other way.. Bertie |
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Leviterande wrote in
: Hi everybody, I just really wish I could view your intersting replies without the very very long "quotes" that come automaticly.. so could you please just delete the unnessesary quotos ? Not a ****ing chance. Bertie |
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"Lonnie" @_#~#@.^net wrote in :
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... to do what? Travel a distance? Make a top speed? Rate of climb? That's the point I was making. I was alos using the smae yardstick, just not for one particualr mission, and high aspect ratio wings do not deliver in every case. Bertie Bull****, you are just trolling and trying to drift the thread. Get lost lamer. Nope. You're just laming, period. Fjukkktard. Bertie |
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"Lonnie" @_#~#@.^net wrote in :
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message ... You are truly a wonder. Bertie Maybe to you, buy you seem to wonder about a lot of things. Yes, I do. Bertie |
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