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Propeller blade tape vs performance

 
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JonathanMilbank



Joined: 14 Apr 2012
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Location: Aberdeen area
PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:11 am    Post subject: Propeller blade tape vs performance Reply with quote
The airfield where I'm temporarily obliged to operate my Classic Europa trigear has a tar runway which seems okay, but actually sheds very fine gritty particles which get sucked up by my Warp Drive propeller fitted on an Airmaster vp hub.

After only a few taxiings and simulated t/o runs, the metal leading edge strips and the unprotected sections closer to the roots both show serious evidence of many tiny nicks, which will accumulate and soon make severe erosion.

Please can you advise me on using prop blade tape and particularly how badly it might affect aircraft performance. I did use short lengths previously along the unprotected leading edges closer to the blade roots and it didn't make a noticeable difference to performance, but now I've stuck on 18" strips all the way to the blade tips.

One opinion I've had already is that the drop-off in performance will be quite serious, but I'd really like to get a spectrum of opinions.

Many thanks, Jonathan

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