Here are the specs on the prop:

 MTV-18 (.pdf,  59k)

 192 cm / 75.6 in    260 HP     2800

I like your helicopter analogy! If I go the supercharger route, maybe
I'll have to install a tail rotor for the vertical stuff.
I really appreciate this dialogue, Paul, thanks!
Gordon, I can't find you in the Starduster Registry. Are you listed?
Ben

Wow that is a big prop to go 2800 RPM.

Paul Lamar

Michael McGee wrote:

Kinda like a Harley with after-market pipes setting off car alarms for blocks.
Cool.
..of course the NIMBY's would scream..

Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in gestation mode

 
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