RE: another beginner question - prop identification
You are correct. The first number is the diameter, usually in inches. The second number is the "pitch", also usually in inches. For those of you in the rest of the world, read mm or cm for inches. Pitch is the distance the prop will move through a SOLID in one revolution. Since air is NOT a solid, but compressible, there is slippage. Due to this, the pitch number is theoretical.
Dr.1