In article <nq7rn412rqd@news7.newsguy.com>, Jess Lurkin says...
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
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>> In article <nq7mpl02012@news3.newsguy.com>, Jess Lurkin says...
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>>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> 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.
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>> Not unusual...classic P-38 had 'em. Google "counter rotating
>> propellers" for lots of links.
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>Hmmm. Thanks for that.
>Never noticed it on the 38s!
>I *am* going blind!
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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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