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Old 10-11-2008 | 11:32 PM
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Wow... Good discussion Dar and Greg! I just got home from a long day (which, by the way, included flying with the 18x10 3 blade prop again) so I'll have to read everything carefully tomorrow. Some of the discussion is over my head at the moment. But that's why I posted the question... so I can learn new things from people like you guys.

I'll try to get those RPM numbers... If not this weekend, next weekend for sure.

Dar... One thing I'm wondering is if you are taking into account the 2:1 gear reduction in your calculations. The RPM numbers I'm posting are the prop RPMs. The piston RPMs are 2x the prop RPMs. Again, I have to read everything carefully still, so if you have already taken it into account, please forgive my ignorance.

(Hopefully, at the end of it all, I'd like to be able to fully understand everything that was talked about here, and be able to make these types of calculations myself. I hope you don't mind me asking you dumb questions. )

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