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To: Rinnwald

It’s not hard to quiet down the propellers on the Tu-95—replace the two four-blade spinners with two six-blade spinners (so the propellers can turn slower, reducing a lot of noise) and curve the blades back slightly as an additional noise-reducing measure. If you look at the six-bladed propellers on the Lockheed C-130J, note the blades are curved slightly backward for the reasons I stated.


26 posted on 07/14/2015 11:16:15 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Maybe they could get it down to the third noisiest aircraft ever.


38 posted on 07/14/2015 11:47:36 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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