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Old 8th December 2001 | 14:41
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Re Fenestron:

Theoretically (and in practise) a tail rotor needs to be 1.4 times (root 2 in fact) the size of the equivalent a fenstron. Interestingly it is the shape of the duct that does half the work - if you put a fenestron fan in a straight tube it is much less efficient then 2nd generation fenestrons.
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