Flight tests to determine propeller performance have been made of a Curtiss No. 838-102-18 three-blade propeller having trailing-edge extensions on a Republic P-47D-28 airplane in climb and high speed. These tests are a part of a general propeller flight-test program at the Langley Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Results of climb tests indicate that when power is changed from approximately 1475 horsepower at 2550 rpm (roughly normal power) to 2400 horsepower at 2700 rpm (approximately military power) there is a loss in propeller efficiency of 3 percent at an altitude of 7000 feet, and 4 percent at 21,000 feet. At an airplane Mach number of 0.7 there is a gain of 9 percent in propeller efficiency when the power coefficient per blade is increased from 0.06 to 0.09. Optimum power coefficient per blade at this Mach number is estimated to be approximately 0.12. An analysis to determine the effect of the addition of extensions on the performance of the basic propeller blades indicates that climb performance was increased but high-speed performance was reduced. Both effects, however, were small.


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    Titel :

    Flight Tests of a Curtiss No. 838-1C2-18 Three-Blade Propeller Having Trailing-Edge Extensions


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1947-07-16


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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