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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!


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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