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ChiefRedCloud
Sep-11-2012, 15:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYYPBo8iK8E&feature=em-uploademail


It was much later found that the propeller constant speed unit that automatically adjust the blade pitch was sometimes faulty due to a starving oil supply to the unit. Fritz explained by saying it was similar to a vehicle gearing down to first gear while doing 200kph and then the engine will blow up setting off the armed bomb as well.....

Doc
Sep-12-2012, 09:44
:thumbsup:

ATAG_Snapper
Sep-12-2012, 10:11
Great interview. Tragic about the defective constant speed units.