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Old 29th Feb 2016, 14:27
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SansAnhedral
 
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negative pitch is slightly misleading as the blades have significant twist along their span and the pitch is measured at a nominal radius (some part of the blade is at positive AOA and some at negative AOA whilst at MPOG, however the resultant total thrust vector is zero).
3/4R is typical
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