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Old 31st May 2014, 07:51
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Allan Lupton
 
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No Hanaka, I was not saying that the OP did not say that propellor thrust did not vary with speed - it was his/her use of a measured static thrust of 508 lbf in the following:

- max_Thrust_propellers = 508 pounds
- Speed_plane = 70 miles/hour
- Power_engine = 40 HP


Yes the arithmetic is fine (don't bother with all those irrelevant SI units)

(508 * 70 *(88/60))/550 = hp

but the 508 lbf assumption is wrong.

As I wrote before, I was not going to get involved in this thread which advances a theory, based on a single unverifiable assumption, as truth.
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