"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Why would they? Their aircraft engines rotated in the same direction as
the
American's, thus generating the same port-biased torque.

No, British aircraft engines turned the other way. Still do, I
believe.

They famously emasculated the Lightning by burdening it with two
left-turning engines.


The problem with the version of the P-38 supplied to the RAF
was the inferior supercharger supplied on the export version
not the fact that it had 2 engines turning the same way.

The unhanded engines and the lack of the turbos were both
serious errors.