At the SMM exhibition and conference in Hamburg, Germany, Wärtsilä is introducing its latest development of large Controllable Pitch (CP) Propellers, based on the previously known E-hub type. The new ...
Controllable-pitch propellers have been developed and produced on the Baltic coast of Germany since 1962 – initially in Rostock, and then in Wismar from 1964. The first units were manufactured for 86 ...
I've mentioned a couple of times lately that an airplane with a control-lable-pitch propeller will glide farther with the propeller in coarse pitch than in fine pitch. These terms coarse and fine aren ...