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Article #6418Re: fast-track failures
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:30
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:30
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In article <lj24cmINNn8@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix) writes:
>*Nobody* had much luck with counter-rotating props (save a handful such
>as the Shackleton and Spitfire XXII). Using them meant that you could
>get by with a smaller prop diameter for a given powerplant, and they
>provided more yaw stability...but the stupid gearboxes never worked.
Too much American aerospace ingenuity and not enough mechanical engineering,
methinks. :-) The Soviets licked this for their Bear bomber, since re-cast
in a variety of support roles, and (last I heard) still in production. The
biggest counter-rotating props ever built, and they work fine.
--
"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: fast-track failures Message-ID: <BzHG6q.9Fp@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:30:24 GMT References: <Bz7wLM.6s8@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec14.145351.14521@ke4zv.uucp> <1goasfINNnne@mirror.digex.com> <lj24cmINNn8@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13