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What is the power face?
Posted by: Glenn_MacGrady on Sep-20-12 4:51 PM (EST)

If the ridged side is supposed to be the power face, that sharp ridge seems to be a rather primitive and overly aggressive means of preventing flutter via what we (somewhat confusingly) today call camber or dihedral. My first assumption was that the ridged side was the back face.

The ridge must degrade slicing and feathering the blade, and also must have some effect on rolling.

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What is the GP style paddle called - string - Sep-18-12 3:11 PM
- It's not a GP at all - mintjulep - Sep-18-12 3:15 PM
- Aleut - Peter-CA - Sep-18-12 3:16 PM
  - Thanks. I knew I was wrong but also - string - Sep-18-12 3:35 PM
    - Aleut, GP, symmetry, dihedral - gstamer - Sep-18-12 6:12 PM
- Aleut and a joy! - bartc - Sep-18-12 7:39 PM
  - I love my GP - rpg51 - Sep-18-12 7:51 PM
- the Aleutian Solution - RavenWing - Sep-18-12 8:01 PM
  - If it's made out of wood - magooch - Sep-20-12 3:56 PM
    - call it whatever you want. - RavenWing - Sep-22-12 5:25 PM
- Wow, very interesting. Questions. - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-20-12 4:09 PM
  - I Asked That Very Question - Kudzu - Sep-20-12 4:30 PM
    - I was making wood chips before - string - Sep-20-12 4:50 PM
    - What is the power face? - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-20-12 4:51 PM
      - Stagnation line - carldelo - Sep-20-12 5:15 PM
      - It's the flutter thing. - bartc - Sep-20-12 5:16 PM
        
        Trust doesn't work - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-20-12 5:31 PM
        
        There's plenty of info - carldelo - Sep-20-12 6:28 PM
        
        Research - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-20-12 8:10 PM
        
        Concept vs actuality - carldelo - Sep-20-12 10:54 PM
        
        Concepts are reality - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-21-12 5:55 PM
        
        Re dimensions - carldelo - Sep-22-12 12:16 AM
        
        One last 11 dimensional point - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-22-12 3:12 AM
        
        Yes - carldelo - Sep-22-12 11:56 AM
        
        Someone Handed Me One - Kudzu - Sep-20-12 6:34 PM
- And sometimes - redmond - Sep-20-12 6:56 PM
  - The garbage theory of the Aleut ridge - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-20-12 8:40 PM
    - Ask a simple question (that was simply - string - Sep-20-12 11:01 PM
- Hey, that feels pretty good - mintjulep - Sep-21-12 6:38 PM
  - Chill - rpg51 - Sep-21-12 6:45 PM
    - Getting way technical - MORiverPaddler - Sep-21-12 8:34 PM
      - Maybe Greenlanders didn't have any - string - Sep-21-12 10:42 PM
        
        I've Got it! - Kudzu - Sep-22-12 6:54 AM
      - Geez! - sternman - Sep-22-12 6:58 AM
        
        I know, I know... - carldelo - Sep-22-12 12:08 PM
        
        then - Fadedred - Sep-22-12 12:45 PM
        Engineers and over analyzing.. - sternman - Sep-22-12 2:05 PM
        
        Quaqte from an old manager: - string - Sep-22-12 2:39 PM
        
        Engineer's Motto: - Kudzu - Sep-22-12 3:25 PM
        
        Aleutian paddles - ret603 - Sep-23-12 11:43 AM
        
        Thanks Dave - kayamedic - Sep-23-12 6:25 PM
- Don't pick on engineers. Other thoughts. - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-23-12 4:17 PM
  - reflections on Glen's post - ret603 - Sep-23-12 7:45 PM
    - The ridge is on my paddle to be and - string - Sep-23-12 8:00 PM
    - Skinboat School. Bantam. Canoe. - Glenn_MacGrady - Sep-23-12 8:58 PM
      - Skinboat School - ret603 - Sep-24-12 10:46 AM
- So yesterday.... - mintjulep - Sep-24-12 9:27 AM
  - wrong language used - ret603 - Sep-24-12 10:25 AM