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Constant speed prop question
John Smith wrote in
: In article , Thomas Borchert wrote: originated out of military teachings that applied to very different pilots doing very different things while flying very different aircraft. Actually, it couldn't have been all of the military. Many major cities in my home country of Germany would contain many more historic buildings today, if those B-17s hadn't run oversquare and lean of peak. The B-17s would never have reached them. We can all say thank you Charles Lindberg for teaching us this technique. Well, the 38 pilots in the pacific could, but leaning techniques as well as a lot of other things about how engines work, were well known to both manufactuers and pilots in the 30s. Some, strangely, have been lost in the mists of time only to be "rediscovered" when things go wrong. Remember the Lycoming crank problem? Moisture in the hollow portion of the shaft just behind the prop? i have several manuals, one form the 1920's , that address this problem and guess what? The same cure recommended in the SB for the lycomings was in those manuals. Bertie |
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