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Richard Lamb wrote:
> ADK wrote:
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>> IF you had to design a PSRU, to drive a pusher propellor via shaft,
>> what would your experience dictate? Thinking along the lines of a
>> gearbelt, chain or gear. Please, I'd appreciate the collective
>> experience available on this group. I've decided on the aircraft,
>> but want to make it the most reliable and safest it can be.
>>
>> "ADK" <aklettke@okanagan.net> wrote in message
>> news:X6TXf.28774$%H.11944@clgrps13...
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>>> This is probably going to open old wounds. What I'd like is
>>> experienced input on the advantages, for economic, efficiency and
>>> longevity etc. of different types of redrives.
>>>
>>> I'm leaning towards a cog-belt reducer in a 6 cylinder, liquid
>>> cooled, configuration driving a long drive shaft to the prop.
>>>
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> The collective experience is zilch = nada = squat = undefined.
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> THAT is what everybody had been trying to tell you.
>
> Wait a second. Look around the airport.
>
> How many shaft driven propellers do you see?
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> Have you ever seen?
>
> If you are heart set on doing it, I sincerely wish you luck.
>
> But I cannot offer any further advice - 'cuz they ain't none...
>
>
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> Richard
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Richard,
Didn't the military do this once?? Seems there was the P-39 Aircobra,
shaft driven from a rear mounted engine?? Are the gray cells working
that far back??
Not that it would be applicable to an experimental, but at least It was
once done?
George
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Re: PSRU design advantages
