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Thruster Tech
By Eric Haun
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Engineering Better Propulsion “Propeller design has often been considered kind of a black over a wide range of operating conditions. art,” said Donald MacPherson, technical director at Hydro- For more in-depth propeller performance analysis, Hydro-
Comp, Inc. But it’s an art that MacPherson has always had a Comp’s PropElements propulsor design software is capable knack for, and today his company is known as experts in the of generating a custom wake-adapted propeller design for