Single-blade propeller

A single-blade propeller may be used on aircraft to generate thrust. Normally propellers are multiblades but the simplicity of a single-blade propeller fits well on motorized gliders, because it permits the design of a smaller aperture of the glider fuselage for retraction of the powerplant. The counterbalanced teetering mono-blade propeller generates fewer vibrations than conventional multiblade configurations.^{[citation needed]} Often, single blade propeller configurations are touted as having a much greater efficiency than multiblade propellers, but this is a falsehood outside the inertial losses in spinning a heavier propeller, and the minimal additional drag from added blades.^{[citation needed]} Single bladed propellers are principally used to fulfill engineering requirements that fall outside the scope of efficiency.

Single-blade propeller drawing.

Single-blade propeller and glider drawing.

Patents[]

US Patent 2742095 Mechanism for balancing single blade aircraft rotor
US Patent 6619585 Helicopter single-blade rotor
US Patent 5971322 - Propeller propulsion unit for aircraft in general

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Single-blade propeller

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