Jmodel 2blade vs 3blade gnd clearance?

[MARZ]

Quote: maniago

BTW, never had horse jerky.  Is it any good?

[maniago]

Hmmm odd looking beast...

 

[maniago]

Quote: rbridges

We're short people in my family.  I'm 5'8, wife 5'7, my folks (getting) smaller  haha.  Kids, damn kids, are 5'10.  So if I'm in the upper left, who can fit in the rear left?  And a 5'10 kid in the upper right, who in the back right, so to speak?  Again, if its airline style ala American or Delta back of the bus-class or better, then its all GTG by my standards.  Comments?

[DonMuncy]

How accurate do you want to know the prop diameter. If within an inch, I would rotate the prop with a blade straight up and drop a tape measure down behind the spinner to the top and down to the ground. Then swing the prop until a blade is straight down and measure to the ground. Naturally the prop diameter is the difference.

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same d

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter a

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground c

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance a

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance a

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a 2-blade, u

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a 2-blade, unless

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a 2-blade, unless someone h

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a 2-blade, unless someone has t

[Hank]

Duh! Now that I'm not standing in front of the plane with a tape measure and tunnel vision, it's obvious and simple.

Measure from the pointy end of the spinner to the ground. Turn prop to put one blade straight down, measure ground clearance. Subracting these two numbers gives propellor radius, and two radii equal one diameter.

Still the same diameter and ground clearance as a 2-blade, unless someone has the smaller MT prop I just learned about today.

Durn it! Bit again by the multi-repeating post. Fingers weren't near "Enter" either--I was trying to type "MT"!

[MARZ]

comon boy spit it out.... (and I thought I was a post monger)

[Hank]

Gee, this is the only place that I stutter when I type!

[DonMuncy]

Geez Hank, you sure know how to make me feel dumb. Your way is way easier than mine.

[maniago]

Man, this is the oddest group of forums I've ever been on - wierd animal pics, horse jerky, repeating posts, and how to measure your prop in 20 different ways.  Next up: plusses and minuses of "Look-Ma!-No-hands-landings" explained - grass, tarmac and water (extra credit).

I might buy in just for stories I get to tell to my FBO lounge-rats....!

[MARZ]

Why yes dear - my Mooney CAN land in the water

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