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[Miloch]

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[Jess Lurkin[_10_]]

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Now wait just a minute! I've got a pretty
bad pair of peepers in my head, but it looks
like this thing has opposite rotating props.
Am I seing things? I thought that design was
thrown out at the drawing board level.


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[Miloch]

In article >, Jess Lurkin says...
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>Miloch > wrote in
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>Now wait just a minute! I've got a pretty
>bad pair of peepers in my head, but it looks
>like this thing has opposite rotating props.
>Am I seing things? I thought that design was
>thrown out at the drawing board level.
>
>

Not unusual...classic P-38 had 'em. Google "counter rotating propellers" for
lots of links.



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[Jess Lurkin[_10_]]

Miloch > wrote in
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> In article >, Jess Lurkin says...
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>>Miloch > wrote in
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>>Now wait just a minute! I've got a pretty
>>bad pair of peepers in my head, but it looks
>>like this thing has opposite rotating props.
>>Am I seing things? I thought that design was
>>thrown out at the drawing board level.
>>
>>
>
> Not unusual...classic P-38 had 'em. Google "counter rotating
> propellers" for lots of links.


Hmmm. Thanks for that.
Never noticed it on the 38s!
I *am* going blind!

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[Savageduck[_3_]]

On 2016-09-01 00:11:16 +0000, Jess Lurkin > said:

> Miloch > wrote in
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>> In article >, Jess Lurkin says...
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>>> Miloch > wrote in
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>>>> end
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>>>
>>>
>>> Now wait just a minute! I've got a pretty
>>> bad pair of peepers in my head, but it looks
>>> like this thing has opposite rotating props.
>>> Am I seing things? I thought that design was
>>> thrown out at the drawing board level.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not unusual...classic P-38 had 'em. Google "counter rotating
>> propellers" for lots of links.
>
>
> Hmmm. Thanks for that.
> Never noticed it on the 38s!
> I *am* going blind!

My father always said that the P-38 counter rotating props were one of
the things which made the P-38 a great plane to fly. He would always
talk of being able to take off with both feet off the pedals (not that
he made a habit of that) and make a smooth torque free take off. It
also made taxiing easier than it was with the P-40, the P-39 (two
planes he hated) and the P-47.
He said the big difference in the various P-38 models came when the "J"
and "L" models added aileron boost it was like having power steering,
making handling much more nimble. Before that he said the P-38E need a
fair amount of muscle on the yoke.


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[Miloch]

In article >, Jess Lurkin says...
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>Miloch > wrote in
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>> In article >, Jess Lurkin says...
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>>>Miloch > wrote in
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>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> begin 644 Felixstowe-F-Large4.jpg
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>>>> Attachment decoded: Felixstowe-F-Large4.jpg
>>>> `
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Now wait just a minute! I've got a pretty
>>>bad pair of peepers in my head, but it looks
>>>like this thing has opposite rotating props.
>>>Am I seing things? I thought that design was
>>>thrown out at the drawing board level.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not unusual...classic P-38 had 'em. Google "counter rotating
>> propellers" for lots of links.
>
>
>Hmmm. Thanks for that.
>Never noticed it on the 38s!
>I *am* going blind!
>

The downside, of course, is maintenance. Although port and starboard engines
share common parts, there are others unique to each engine...crankshafts for
example.

SNAFU creeps in...you might have a needed part for an engine that needs the part
but it's for the port engine not the starboard engine and therefore useless to
you.





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