Subject: [FlyRotary]
Prop Speeds
Wow, that is 2935 RPM at the prop
with a prop tip speed of just under 900 FPS. I am still too shy to run
mine that fast, although I could easily get there. Interestingly, the
calculations say the max corkscrew speed of that prop at that RPM is only 197mph.
He could pick up a little for being really clean, and maybe some more depending
on how they calculate prop pitch.
The pitch is a measure of the angle of
the chord of the blade; or sometimes the flat on the RAF airfoil; it doesn’t
measure the “lift” of the airfoil. So it seems to me quite
possible to go faster than the “corkscrew” speed of the prop.
But then I could be wrong . . .
Al