The Propeller is Wrong
The propeller on planes and on ships and the fans in jet aircraft and the fans
in ventilation equipment or forced air fans -- are all wrong. Wrong, wrong,
wrong.
I'll have to get into this later. But as I said before . it's not in the
structure, it's in the element. What is needed more than anything is a far
better and far greater understanding of air itself. You're dealing with an
entire universe of physics properties here. This is immense; this is the key,
this holds the secret to the functionality of any piece of equipment you're
going to develop that has anything to do with air.
We basically know nothing about it. It may even be possible to have a forced air
system without any fan at all. Maybe some of you guys have done that out there and
you're just afraid to disclose it because of how fast ideas get stolen. For you, I
can say this: for every idea some idiot steals from you, there are at least a
million more right behind it. If you spent 10 years on an idea and someone stole
it, they would never be able to do what you did with it, and you can work on a
variation of that, which would only set you back fraction of the time, that
would have nothing to do with the idea stolen.
There is an aspect of geometry, I think I must've worn this saying out here
because I'm always talking about how everything is in the stone age, the bronze
age, the dark age, I just about run out of ages to cliché the statement to. I
guess I would have to relegate this problem to
self-inflicted-with-dumbness-mankind relegating itself to the aerodynamic
asinine age, and that just about comprises every human development throughout
history. Enough about that. I'm so thoroughly disgusted and thoroughly
disappointed at this point in my life with the dilema of humanity's lack of
insight. Humankind's failure, false sense of achievement, unerring quality of
disabling itself tends to overcome and surpass it's promise and potential.
To start off with your basic propeller needs to be a basic shape. I think you
probably would make more progress if you did a series of sculptures about things
ushering air past them, then if you tried to have your angular cut,
Manatee-slashing propellers chopping up both sea and sky, and really getting you
nowhere fast. It's the wrong shape, people. Some of these wooden propellers look
beautiful, and I know you did a lot of work on them, there's no doubting that.
And sincere kudos, plaudits and laudations -- hats off to you and all that. But,
you know, we could have spent some time studying air itself and how it behaves.
I did a little research on what I call the infinity spinner, that rotates on a
central axis, but operates lateral spoon-shape bowls, kinda like a teaspoon
anemometer, but much more complex than that. It seems the secret is, and don't
get me wrong, I don't know that much about it, I haven't been able to do the lab
work nobody can afford that except those funded to find the golden BB such as a
cure for cancer, or lifting body reentry vehicles so expensive that the whole
secret of the technology is how to finance them. But what the infinity spinner
involves, is taking a flat rectangle and joining the corners, only one pair of
corners to one side. This does something like sit inside the fuselage, and is
enclosed, and moves the aircraft by a combination of thrust to the aft and
vacuum forward.
It isn't so much about it's final shape, but the totality of it's shape-history
in relation to the substance it is working with, in this case a flat rectangle,
then conforms to a transformation from two to three dimensions, in obedience --
but less obedience then a protocol-recognition of atmospherics -- to the
substance and properties of air itself. In air we see, from our first encounter
with it, that it exhibits two-dimensional behavior while at the same time being
very much three-dimensional. So, you see, there is something to be argued about
the scientific discipline of applied aesthetics, the use of the concept of the
aesthete when approaching the science of the matter.
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The propeller is wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
... the infinity spinner, combining two and three dimensions, housed in the
fuselage....
02 June, 2005
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