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To: Jan_Sobieski

How can a highwing aircraft with 2000hp turboprop engines get into a flat spin?????


63 posted on 08/14/2024 9:03:09 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: chopperk

How can a highwing aircraft with 2000hp turboprop engines get into a flat spin?????
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I believe that these turboprops use a variable pitch blade type. If there is a failure in the mechanism that controls the pitch, very serious things can happen..... if that happens for one turboprop, there is a serious imbalance in thrust from one side to the other if one side is at a reverse blade angle and the other at a positive angle.
Not saying that happened and I’m not an aircraft engineer but the video of it spinning out of control looked that way.


71 posted on 08/14/2024 4:00:42 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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