wrote:

DH 88. Sound of forehead slap. You're right, one of the sharpest
looking airplanes ever, although I would not care for its forward
visibility in three point attitude.

If you're starting to discuss characteristics other than appearance, I think you
would also dislike the two-speed props the DHs had. Most people hated them.

They were locked into fine pitch on the ground before takeoff. They had a sort
of flywheel arrangement that would shift them into coarse pitch once a certain
airspeed was reached. They could not be changed back to fine pitch in the air.
Invariably, one prop would go into coarse pitch before the other, which I'm told
led to a period of interesting flight characteristics. Occasionally one prop
wouldn't go into coarse pitch at all, and things got *really* interesting.

George Patterson
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