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The question of the efficiency of multi-blade propellers always comes up and the answers are somewhat more straight-out than they should. first of all, we need to understand what is the efficiency of a propeller, when talking about airplanes. the efficiency is the ratio between an output power and an input power. for a propeller, the input power is