Return-Path: Received: from relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.131.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 2640796 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:11:32 -0400 Received: (qmail 10460 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2003 19:11:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO frontiernet.net) ([170.215.97.8]) (envelope-sender ) by relay04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (FrontierMTA 2.3.6) with SMTP for ; 17 Oct 2003 19:11:28 -0000 Message-ID: <3F903EFC.412AE1AC@frontiernet.net> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:11:56 -0500 From: Jim Sower X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Propeller design software References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------494AB8D9DD8ED41DF625AC7F" --------------494AB8D9DD8ED41DF625AC7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There was pretty good program circulating a while back - Nigel Bates or something like that. Folks swear by the props it produces. It was free IIRC. Contact Al Wick at alwick@juno.com Marko Bewersdorff wrote: > Is anyone interested in building their own prop? I'm > contemplating on buying the Propoptimizer Pro program from > Bates Engineering. One inputs plane data and HP / RPM figures > etc, and it spits out coordinates for templates to carve a > prop. http://home.earthlink.net/~bateseng/prop.htmonly > drawback - $295 for the program.Is anyone interested in > sharing that investment like buying it for a "rotary club" - > I'm not talking about making a bunch of copies of it but some > serious sharing as in one person can use it only at any given > time, however that works.Marko -- Jim Sower Crossville, TN; Chapter 5 Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T --------------494AB8D9DD8ED41DF625AC7F Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There was pretty good program circulating a while back - Nigel Bates or something like that. Folks swear by the props it produces. It was free IIRC. Contact Al Wick at alwick@juno.com

Marko Bewersdorff wrote:

Is anyone interested in building their own prop? I'm contemplating on buying the Propoptimizer Pro program from Bates Engineering. One inputs plane data and HP / RPM figures etc, and it spits out coordinates for templates to carve a prop. http://home.earthlink.net/~bateseng/prop.htmonly drawback - $295 for the program.Is anyone interested in sharing that investment like buying it for a "rotary club" - I'm not talking about making a bunch of copies of it but some serious sharing as in one person can use it only at any given time, however that works.Marko

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Jim Sower
Crossville, TN; Chapter 5
Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T
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