RE: Weird strobe effect
December 6, 2010 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2010 at 9:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 6, 2010 at 2:50 am)Tiberius Wrote: Wait...they still have passenger planes with external blades? Holy crap...I've fallen backwards through TIME!
There will be more external bladed engines in your future. Think of a turbofan engine as just a turboprop engine with a smaller, densely bladed prop encased in a shroud. A turbo prop engine is just a turbo fan engine with a very large, sparsely bladed fan without a shroud.
A lot of work is currently going into a new intermediate concept called propfan, which is half way between a turbofan and a turboprop. It's an externally bladed engine with lot more shorter blades then traditional turboprop, but without the shroud, and with longer blades, then of the conventional turbofan.
