| The following articles
are intended to answer a few of the questions you may have
on aspects of model aircraft propeller design and performance.
They are unrestricted as to content, so you may find some
formulae in there. Many people are put off by equations, but
please, where they interest you, work your way through them.
Propellers are one area where you really do need to have the
numbers right.
Most of the articles have been published previously
in Australian Control Line News (acln@ozemail.com.au),
so I recommend this journal to serious control line flyers,
wherever you are.
Also included is "work in progress". This is
mainly the use of Doppler effect to quantitate the performance
of propellers, plus new methods for the design and fabrication
of propellers.
Meredith Effect: Making Sense Of It NEW
Meredith Effect: Fact or Fiction NEW
A propeller for compressed air motors
Critical Mach Number
Analytic analysis of team race performance
Genocide in Western Australia
Analytic Design of Propellers Part 7: Camber and zero-lift angle
Analytic Design of Propellers - Part 6: Propeller design, compressibility correction
Analytic Design of Propellers - Part 5: Computer code, propeller design
Analytic Design of Propellers - part 4: Flow vector diagrams
Earlier in this series:
Analytical Design
of Propellers - part 1
Analytical Design
of Propellers - part 2 Determination of C1
Analytical Design
of Propellers - part 3 Induced Angle of Attack
Compressibilty: Selection of propeller airfoil section (Prandtl-Glauert rule)
F/F:
Longitudinal Stability
Dixielander
Trim
Closed-Shell Moulding of Composite Propellers
The
Atmosphere
Gyroscopic Behaviour of Propellers
Power elevator hinging
Measurement of Compression Ratio
C/L: Speed model C/G position
Transonic
airfoils Part 1: Negative camber
Transonic
airfoils Part 2: Dance of the shock waves
Transonic
airfoils Part 3: The shockwave stripped bare
Transonic
airfoils Part 4: Local Mach number
Transonic
airfoils Part 5: The Glauert-Prandtl rule
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics Part 1: Good Grief!
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics Part 2: More Grief!
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics Part 3: Pressure
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics: Part 4: Temperature
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics: Part 6: The maths of axisymmetric flow
Theory
of Fluid Dynamics: Part 5: Propeller Inflow Field
Theory of Fluid Dynamics Part 7: The maths of 2-dimensional line source flow.
Integrity
testing of a new propeller for Giant Scale Pylon Racing models.
25 X 30
Frog
500 - in response to Incorrectly Asembled Engines
Cooling
Large Model Engines
A
Sticky Situation - by Bob Allan
Incorrectly
Assembled Model Engines - by Alwyn Smith
F2B: B X-wing: the Ultimate Failure
of the HoG line-tension saga
F2B:
The mechanics of yaw
F2B: Automatic line-tension
compensation
F2B: Gyroscopic force
calculation
F2B: Fabrication of
piston rings for Stunt engines
F2B: “Heart of Gold”
Gyroscopic Precession
F2B:
Proof-of-concept radical design .. “Heart of Gold”
F2B: ST G21/46 diamond
lap of piston ring
F2B:
Fools Rush In
F2B:
Expansion Chamber Muffler design for F2B Stunt
F2B:
Stunt, Squish and Singh stunt model engines
F2B: Restoration of old C/L
Stunt ringed motors by honing
Some observations
on the changing sounds of Aussie English - by Pete Somers
The Munday Engine
- by Bob Allan
Covering with Vilene
The Year was 1957 -
by Bob Allan
Gig Eifflaender: Progress
Aero Works by Bob Allan
Use of glow motors in Vintage
Combat 2000
Project North Star
Pearls from Eric Pfalzer
Obscenity of the year..
2005
Disaster at North Oak
Doppler Wind correction
Herr
Doppler helps the Prop Doctor
Doppler
Revisited
Remote Doppler Recording
Application of Doppler
to F2A
Field test: F3D Remote Doppler
Recording
Enya Trilogy-
Bob Allan
NEW
Enyas - David Zwolak
F2B Enyas
More
Enyas! - Bob Allan
Enya 09 - Bob Allan
Enya 29
- Bob Allan
Enya
- Bob Allan
Rolf
Harris
Wind Turbines
Design of high-Mach propeller
tips
Trouble with NACA 4 Digit
Airfoil Sections
Reno for Gearheads
- G White
Reno from the Pitts
- G White
More on cooling airplane engines
from Graham White
Ducted Cooling of Airplane
engines
Book Review by Joe Supercool
Response to Travelling
Dynamometer
Travelling Dynamometer
Return of the Prop Doctor
Acoustic Antenna Part
2
Acoustic Antenna Part
1
Prop Doctor visits
Las Vegas
Propeller surface finish
Propeller airfoils revealed
Propeller failures
Propeller flutter
F2A single blade counterbalance
Dead and gone to heaven
Powered hang gliders
Use of PVA release agent
The Breguet range equation
Transonic Airfoils for Propellers
Propeller power absorption
and thrust
Pitch comparison between
propellers
Empirical determination
of propeller pitch
Balance of Propeller/Engine
AT-6 Racing Propeller
Powered hang gliders
Not included is my book, "Propeller Dynamics".
This may be purchased from me direct,
or from the AMA shop in Muncie, Indiana [fax in USA (765)
289-4248].
After much searching through libraries, I realised
there was no book that gave a non-technical introduction to
the theory of propellers. My book is intended to be read by
the newcomer to propeller theory, but also to include insights
which may either inform or amuse the professional engineer.
My hope was that it would be taken up by the universities
as a primer in aerodynamic propulsion courses, but that has
not happened. Guess I'm ahead of my time, yet again!!
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