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    This document discusses the history and development of aircraft propellers. It explains that early aircraft used propellers made of flat boards to push air backwards and create thrust. Over time, propeller designs improved to use airfoil shapes that could produce lift to pull aircraft forward more efficiently. Advances led to thinner aluminum alloy propellers with greater structural strength. Today, composite materials and new airfoil shapes continue to improve propeller design and efficiency. The document then defines key terms used in discussing propellers such as blade angle, pitch, and pitch distribution.

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    This document discusses the history and development of aircraft propellers. It explains that early aircraft used propellers made of flat boards to push air backwards and create thrust. Over time, propeller designs improved to use airfoil shapes that could produce lift to pull aircraft forward more efficiently. Advances led to thinner aluminum alloy propellers with greater structural strength. Today, composite materials and new airfoil shapes continue to improve propeller design and efficiency. The document then defines key terms used in discussing propellers such as blade angle, pitch, and pitch distribution.

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    This document discusses the history and development of aircraft propellers. It explains that early aircraft used propellers made of flat boards to push air backwards and create thrust. Over time, propeller designs improved to use airfoil shapes that could produce lift to pull aircraft forward more efficiently. Advances led to thinner aluminum alloy propellers with greater structural strength. Today, composite materials and new airfoil shapes continue to improve propeller design and efficiency. The document then defines key terms used in discussing propellers such as blade angle, pitch, and pitch distribution.

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    PR Peller

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    This document discusses the history and development of aircraft propellers. It explains that early aircraft used propellers made of flat boards to push air backwards and create thrust. Over time, propeller designs improved to use airfoil shapes that could produce lift to pull aircraft forward more efficiently. Advances led to thinner aluminum alloy propellers with greater structural strength. Today, composite materials and new airfoil shapes continue to improve propeller design and efficiency. The document then defines key terms used in discussing propellers such as blade angle, pitch, and pitch distribution.

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    INTRODUCTION

    Throughout the development of controlled flight as we know it, every


    aircraft required some kind of device to convert engine power to some
    form of thrust. Nearly all of the early practical aircraft designs used
    propellers to create this thrust.
    As the science of aeronautics progressed, propeller designs improved
    from flat boards, which merely pushed the air backwards, to airfoil
    shapes. These airfoils produced lift to pull the aircraft forward through
    aerodynamic action.
    As aircraft designs improved, propellers were developed which used
    thinner airfoil sections and had greater strength. Because of its structural
    strength, these improvements brought the aluminum alloy propeller
    into wide usage. The advantage of being able to change the propeller
    blade angle in flight led to wide acceptance of the two-position
    propeller and, later, the constant speed propeller system.
    Today, propeller designs continue to be improved by the use of new
    composite materials, new airfoil shapes and multi blade configurations.
    Terms
    Before starting any discussion about propellers, it is necessary to define
    some basic terms to avoid confusion and misunderstanding.
    A propeller is a rotating airfoil that consists of two or more blades
    attached to a central hub which is mounted on the engine crankshaft.
    The function of the propeller is to convert engine power to useful thrust.
    Propeller blades have a leading edge, trailing edge, a tip, a shank, a face,
    and a back as shown in figure .

    Blade angle is the angle between the propeller’s plane of rotation, and
    the chord line of the propeller airfoil.
    Blade station is a reference position on a blade that is a specified
    distance from the center of the hub.

    Pitch is the distance (in inches or millimeters) that a propeller section will move forward in one revolution.
    Pitch distribution is the gradual twist in the propeller blade from shank to tip.

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