The interesting thing about the p38, mentioned earlier, is the tops of the propeller arcs move outwards (not inwards like a conventional counter-rotating setup). Naturally this makes the p38 "tricky" under asymmetric thrust regardless of which of the engines fails. There is no critical engine in a p38, they are BOTH bad.
According to Kelly Johnson, this was done to make the p38 a more stable gun platform.
Last edited by WTE_Galway; 09-27-2012 at 12:04 AM.
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