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HELICE CIMETERRE [1 record]

Record 1 2008-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
DEF

Advanced propeller for use at high Mach numbers, having 6 to 12 blades each with thin, sharp-edged lenticular profile and curved scimitar shape.

OBS

It is often used to designate both the engine and its propeller. Some competing terms: free fan (Boeing): unducted fan, UDF (GE): ultra fan, advanced propeller (R-R): ultra-high bypass, UHB (McDonnell Douglas): ultra-bypass engine, UBE (Boeing coined this term to describe both geared propfans and gearless unducted fan). However, the term propfan coined by Hamilton Standard, a pioneer in that field, is gaining wide acceptance.

OBS

propfan: term officially approved by the Internacional Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs
DEF

Hélice à grand nombre de pales, plus ou moins recourbées et dotées de profils spéciaux autorisant des Mach de croisière relativement élevés (0,7 à 0,8).

OBS

Il existe des versions contrarotatives de ce genre d'hélice.

OBS

La nouvelle école (1993) désigne ce système de propulsion sous la zone de Système THR ou propulsion THR - Turbopropulseur à hélices rapides.

OBS

hélice transsonique : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes et par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI).

PHR

Propfan monté en queue, sur des mâts.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas de propulsión de aeronaves
OBS

hélice transónica; hélice propfan: términos aceptados oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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