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  2. Blade pitch - Wikipedia

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    Blade pitch acts much like the gearing of the final drive of a car. Low pitch yields good low speed acceleration (and climb rate in an aircraft) while high pitch optimizes high speed performance and fuel economy. It is quite common for an aircraft to be designed with a variable-pitch propeller, to give maximum thrust over a larger speed range ...

  3. Propeller - Wikipedia

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    The propeller characteristics are commonly expressed as dimensionless ratios: [31] Pitch ratio PR = propeller pitch/propeller diameter, or P/D; Disk area A 0 = πD 2 /4; Expanded area ratio = A E /A 0, where expanded area A E = Expanded area of all blades outside of the hub.

  4. Propeller (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    Early pitch control settings were pilot operated, either with a small number of preset positions or continuously variable. [1] The simplest mechanism is the ground-adjustable propeller, which may be adjusted on the ground, but is effectively a fixed-pitch prop once airborne. The spring-loaded "two-speed" VP prop is set to fine for takeoff, and ...

  5. Advance ratio - Wikipedia

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    Diameter of the propeller. The propeller advance ratio or coefficient is a dimensionless number used in aeronautics and marine hydrodynamics to describe the relationship between the speed at which a vehicle (like an airplane or a boat) is moving forward and the speed at which its propeller is turning.

  6. Propeller theory - Wikipedia

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    An alternative design is the controllable-pitch propeller (CPP, or CRP for controllable-reversible pitch), where the blades are rotated normally to the drive shaft by additional machinery – usually hydraulics – at the hub and control linkages running down the shaft. This allows the drive machinery to operate at a constant speed while the ...

  7. Variable-pitch propeller (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A controllable-pitch propeller is one where the pitch is controlled manually by the pilot. Alternatively, a constant-speed propeller is one where the pilot sets the desired engine speed ( RPM ), and the blade pitch is controlled automatically without the pilot's intervention so that the rotational speed remains constant.

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