My favorite spinner was a 14 inch fiberglass unit sold by Loehle Aviation for use on his P-40 and P-51 replicas. I wonder if they still have them for sale?
A prominent aerodynamicist told me that a spinner up to one third of prop diameter was the last way to squeeze a few more percentage points of efficiency out of a perfect prop. Scott Dana Overall wrote: > > > From: [email protected] > > > I see how the forward bulkhead is screwed to the prop hub > > but not to the Spinner. > > > > > I thought perhaps there would be screws through the spinner > > into the forward bulkhead much like the rear one. > > Scott > > Scott, look at the third picture up from the bottom, it says: "OH, I am > finished. I still have to put the screws in the front bulkhead, but I ran > out of anchor nuts." > > Dana Overall > > 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host > Richmond, KY i39 > > RV-7 slider "Black Magic" > Flying..well sorta, useta, kinda > Barrett Precision O 360 A1A > Hartzell C2YR-1BFP/F7497-2 > http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackmagic.jpg > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMi05-WU2D0#GU5U2spHI_4 > http://rvflying.tripod.com > > do not archive > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.18/1254 - Release Date: 1/31/08 > 8:30 PM
