Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxp!fcm From: fcm@ihuxp.UUCP (F.C. McAtee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Pusher vs tractor prop Message-ID: <845@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 13:49:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxp.845 Posted: Fri Sep 14 13:49:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:33:46 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 Somewhere in my stack of old aviation mags, Sport Aviation I think, I have an article stating that a pusher prop is about 15 percent more efficient than a tractor. If you look at the specs on the Cessna Skymaster you'll see that the single engine performance figures for the pusher are higher than for the tractor. -- Optimism is not dead, F. C. McAtee It's just been badly AT&T Consumer Products, Inc. beaten. ...ihnp4!ihuxp!fcm