They’re not in wake, Mike; the propellor is moving forwards so each blade would
be in clean air. Many props have mare than three or four blades.
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> On 30 Aug 2019, at 00:48, Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Fuel burn related to all those blades on the prop? I am no engineer but
> would seem efficiency would be down with each blade turning in the wake of
> the previous.
> Probably a myriad of other variables that would not even know to think about
> but the number of blades strikes the lay person as unusual
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