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Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Flug Werk Fw-190A-8/M “Weiße 11”

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One doesnt need high performance in high ceilings, you need torque in low ceilings at airshows. MeierMotors tested the aircraft with an original three-blade wooden propeller (as delivered to Yagen), but today these aircraft are flown in other conditions than in World War II.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Another advantage of the counter-rotating props is the elimination of torque roll. This is the tendency to dig in the left tip float during takeoff while countering engine torque. Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know.

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The Smithsonian’s Italian Thunderbolt

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inches) to counteract the torque from the Monsone engine. and was suspended from the ceiling of the World War II in the Air gallery by the time of the opening ceremony on July 1st, 1976. The armament consisted of four Breda-SAFAT machine guns (two 12.7mm guns in the nose, and two 7.7mm guns in the wings). 91981 356-8.

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