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Old 05-25-2011, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by IvanK View Post
Which VDM propeller and in which aircraft ? Fw190 kommandgerate operation has a different pitch slew rate to the DB system that lacks kommandgerate.
Maybe that the manual "D.(Luft)T. 3810 - VDM-Verstell-Luftschrauben Gerätehandbuch" can help us. But I didn't find anything of its content in open sources.

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PS: Have a look at this
http://www.enginehistory.org/Convent...20Electric.pdf

From the book, The Messerschmitt Bf.109 by James F. Craig.
"Another departure was the propeller pitch control, which was mounted near the centre of the instrument panel instead of on the throttle quadrant, and the prop pitch indicator, which was in the form of a clock face, complete with hour & minute hands. Blade angles of the VDM electric propeller, which were infinitely variable from a low pitch position of 22.5 degree to fully feathered 90 degree position, were read as clock settings. About ten minutes on the clock face was equivalent to one degree of propeller pitch."

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