As the airliner’s engines roar to life, the high-pitched squeal of jet engines that greets most modern-day passengers is nowhere to be heard. Instead, a powerful rumble from three propeller engines ...
Hamilton Sundstrand's NP2000 eight-bladed propeller system has passed with flying colours following an initial series of tests on the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye early-warning aircraft. Selected in 1997 ...
THE primary purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the most pressing problems involved in choosing the propeller that is most suitable for use on a particular airplane. Propeller design is not ...