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Old 02-18-2004, 02:01 PM
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Default RE: What are gear Drives (gear Boxes) for?

Well yes a bigger prop gives you more thrust but at a cost of shortening the motor run time. Bigger prop also increases the amps a lot! Easy way to kill a motor. Also depends on the amt. of lift the wing can produce. The wing after all does the lifting the prop just moves the acft. forward.