A400 M Big blades

[petoprobe]

Interesting
http://www.a400m-countdown.com/index.php?p...e=03_Powerplant

The first air test should be fun

[OmegaV6]

flight-test programme involving the 11,000 shp turboprop recently installed together with its 5.5m-diameter propeller on a C-130 Hercules test bed at Marshall Aerospace UK.


'kin HUGE !!!! - The J prop (13ft 6ins) is about the same diameter as the K seen here ...

(The "gap" between prop tip and fuselage on one side, and prop tip/prop tip the other is not very big at all ...... :) )

http://www.a400m-countdown.com/index.php?v=8&spage=4

[brakedwell]

Very interesting. The Britannia props were 16' diameter = 4.88m

[sycamore]

Be nice to have one of those pitchlock at fine pitch!!!
Anybody here actively involved with it ?Cockpit looks too much like an airliner,3 pedals , and a tray,for heavens sake !!Still,co-pilots can get their 3 meals on there,at the same time! Can you get Sky on those screens? No windows in the roof....obviously not a very tactical viewpoint..but then few of the designers/builders send their troops into `danger`...does it have ESF perchance ?question asked 21/04/2008,for the attention of MOD.......Syc.

[Old Fella]

The C130A had Aeroproducts 3 blade 15' diameter props. Most were eventually changed to Hamilton-Standard 4 blade 13'6" diameter props. As far as I am aware the last Aeroproducts equipped C130A still flying is operated by Earl Cherry in the USA. (ex RAAF A97-212 now N131EC) Earl uses it to transport palm trees for his Nursery business and also used for parachuting sorties.