New Counter Rotating, Forward Facing Prop Technology: Military to Consumer Markets.

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  • Meniscus
    Refuse the box exists!
    • Jul 2008
    • 3225
    #1

    New Counter Rotating, Forward Facing Prop Technology: Military to Consumer Markets.

    Check it out!

    http://www.offshore-mag.com/display_article/239192/120/ARTCL/Display/none/1/Counter-rotating-propeller-system-improves-fuel-use-and-crew-comfort/


    Better efficiency all around. Maybe this design could be adapted for an outboard type setup.

    What do you think?
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    • Diegoboy
      Administrator
      • Mar 2007
      • 7244
      #2
      I like the "undisturbed water" idea. Now to make a "U" bend in my flex cable.
      "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
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        • Diegoboy
          Administrator
          • Mar 2007
          • 7244
          #3
          I need to work in a machine shop!
          "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
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            • AndyKunz
              Fast Electric Addict!
              • Sep 2008
              • 1437
              #4
              You won't see it on too many boats - the prop is going to suck itself into the mud and/or find debris, rather than having the foot deflect it.

              Andy
              Spektrum Development Team

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                • Darin Jordan
                  Fast Electric Addict!
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 8335
                  #5
                  Believe it or not... we have a guy in our club who is experimenting with a TS2 tunnel that has the lower unit mounted backwards on the FRONT of the hull! I haven't seen it go yet...
                  Darin E. Jordan - Renton, WA
                  "Self-proclaimed skill-less leader in the hobby."

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                    • Meniscus
                      Refuse the box exists!
                      • Jul 2008
                      • 3225
                      #6
                      I thought someone had to be employing some of the concepts.
                      IMPBA: 7-Time FE World Record Holder "Don't think outside the box. Rather, refuse to admit that the box exists in the first place!"
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                        • properchopper
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                          • Apr 2007
                          • 6968
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Darin Jordan
                          Believe it or not... we have a guy in our club who is experimenting with a TS2 tunnel that has the lower unit mounted backwards on the FRONT of the hull! I haven't seen it go yet...
                          Man, I like it !! Any details/pix ?
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                            • Darin Jordan
                              Fast Electric Addict!
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 8335
                              #8
                              Originally posted by properchopper
                              Man, I like it !! Any details/pix ?
                              I'll see what I can find... From what I've heard... as you can imagine... it hooks like crazy... and keeps climbing off the water...

                              Probably the wrong hull type to be trying this on... with the motor in the front, there will be TONS of lifting action... and on a hull that's already designed to fly... it's not likely to work really well... but I admire him for thinking so far outside the box!
                              Darin E. Jordan - Renton, WA
                              "Self-proclaimed skill-less leader in the hobby."

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                                • Fluid
                                  Fast and Furious
                                  • Apr 2007
                                  • 8012
                                  #9
                                  This would be yet another full-scale technology searching for an application in models. We already have props which operate in undisturbed water - the surfacing props used on 90% of all FE boats. The inefficiencies required to make it work in FE boats would render it far less suitable for fast boats. Perhaps for slower boats.....



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