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Given the era it was from, it also almost certainly did not have aerofoil-shaped blades; axial-flow compressors from this era were terribly inefficient.



It appears to be a conventional propeller, which had an airfoil cross-section and were fairly efficient by then, but current ducted fans for low-speed use typically have 6 or 8 broader and shorter blades.




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