Maybe there's something wrong with the pointers in my email engine. I keep getting posts where the suject is supposed to be "wing tank fuel gauge", but the content is "propeller and propwash". Please advise.
Steve N87337 > > They said it's not just their prop and that's normal. He said to look at the > > wake of a boat with a pulling prop and one with a speed prop. A flatter > > pitched prop almost always has a wider dispersion angle and that "rounding > > the tip alleviates some of this problem" (wow) However this leaves the > > rounded part doing less work even if it is moving the fastest and then you > > have to increase the length to compensate. > > > > Gald I'm in electronics instead of engineering. > > > > Claude > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > The boat analogy may not hold much water. <g> > > The size of wake from a boat is from the HULL and it's SPEED. > When going faster, you unwet the hull by riding higher out of the water, > giving the narrower/smaller wake. > > If you can go fast enough, only the prop is essentially in the water, > causing little impact to the surrounding environment, i.e., little wake. > > Following this analogy, you have a wider wake because..... > YOU ARE GOING SLOWER. > > Your data appears to contradict this. > > > Bob Urban
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