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[TowerTalk] Prop Pitch Speed Up

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Prop Pitch Speed Up
From: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:00:51 EST
In a message dated 99-01-14 20:48:13 EST, w7why@harborside.com writes:

> Here's something I found in the 1949 June QST that might
>  be of some interest to the guys with prop pitch motors.
>  The article was "Speeding up prop pitch beam rotors"

      YIKES! That's about the worst thing you can do to a prop pitch IMO. You
lose the gear reduction braking among other things. 

Cheers,  Steve    K7LXC

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