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Old 05-23-2011, 01:04 AM
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The Curtiss Electric Propellers were directly controlled by electric motors. Not that it matters for this discussion, but hey, I'm a Curtiss fan boy.



And interestingly the Curtiss prop could be operated as a standard constant speed type, or manually like the Bf 109 type.
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