AT-10 "Bamboo Bomber" Question

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Did the AT10 have featherable props? If not, was level flight
maintainable with a windmilliing prop?

[Krztalizer]

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>Did the AT10 have featherable props?

The next responder will know that, I am certain.

>If not, was level flight
>maintainable with a windmilliing prop?

Rarely is. Even on a twin as powerful as a Mosquito, an unfeathered prop was a
death sentence.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Its always better to lose AN engine, than THE engine.

[Dale]

In article >,
wrote:

> Did the AT10 have featherable props? If not, was level flight
> maintainable with a windmilliing prop?

Almost got to ferry one of them. <G>

Originally they did not have feathering props....later models did. I
think about all that are flying today probably have feathering props.

According to the book you should be able to maintain altitude with one
engine out...but single engine ceiling is low...like 3-4000 if I
remember correctly.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

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[Bob's Your Uncle]

> wrote in message ...
> Did the AT10 have featherable props? If not, was level flight
> maintainable with a windmilliing prop?

The Cessna T-50 Bobcat was the "Bamboo Bomber", not the Beech AT-10.

Neither had featherable props.

[Peter Stickney]

wrote in message >...
> Did the AT10 have featherable props? If not, was level flight
> maintainable with a windmilliing prop?

Well, after checking out the FAA Type Certificate Data Sheets
for the WW2 era light twins (Cessna T-50 (UC-78). Beech 18
(F-2, C-45, AT-7 and AT-11) and the Beech AT-10 (Not the same
as a Beech 18), none of them had feathering props. They all
had Hamilton Standard 2D30 prop hubs, which were a 2-blade hub
with a 15 degree pitch range.

Whether an airplane could maintain altitude on 1 engine would
depend on a number of factors, such as, well, what altitude
you want to maintain. Most of these airplanes used some
flavor of the Pratt & Whitney R985, the Wright R975, the
Lycoming R680, or the Jacobs R755. Full-feathering props
for these engines didn't appear until after the war.

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Pete Stickney