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From: Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>
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On 2016-09-01 00:11:16 +0000, Jess Lurkin <NiceGuy@3456.com> said:
> Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
> news:nq7p3e0221g@drn.newsguy.com:
>
>> In article <nq7mpl02012@news3.newsguy.com>, Jess Lurkin says...
>>>
>>> Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>>> news:nq7lis01rul@drn.newsguy.com:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> begin 644 Felixstowe-F-Large4.jpg
>>>>
>>>> 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!
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.
--
Regards,
Savageduck
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