And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
There is enough curvature to the "top side" of the airfoil to achieve a purchase just by way of "friction", if you will. Imagine starting a small rc gas engine/prop without wrapping your finger around the blade.
Yep. As a youngster I went gliding with my Dad a lot and remember starting watching them starting the Tiger Moth like that. You had to wrap your finger tips around the trailing edge and flick when on compression. A bitch when it wouldn't start. My dad with a couple of other ground crew used to start Corsairs with a leather strop over a couple of propeller tips in the islands during WW2. I guess they didn't always have a battery cart but he said they were easy to start by pulling them through. The RNZAF looked after their airplanes better than most and some American pilots sought the New Zealand servicing units help to service their own aircraft.
Interestingly, during WW 2 Russia had women fighter and bomber pilots in combat. Everyone fought who could, because their homeland was invaded. I never saw any pictures of them fighting in a dress, though. Very glamorous but not too practical, especially if you have to bail out.
A small flat engine like that can be easily turned through with your hand flat on the prop, with a bigger radial you almost have to have a real grip on the blade to get it to turn over. An interesting aside, I saw a guy crank a DC-3 by wrapping a cargo strap around the prop dome and pulling it with a forklift, kind of like cranking a lawn mower.
Civil Air Patrol, not WASP. See the three bladed prop in a white triangle on the shoulder patch. There were some women ferry pilots in WW2, not many, however.
that a WASP?
ReplyDeleteWrapping fingers around the blade is a quick way to loose a hand.
ReplyDeleteYep. A lot wrong in that pic. Fortunate if it was just a photo op.
DeleteSo out of curiosity, how would you spin the prop by hand without wrapping your fingers around an edge of the blade?
DeleteThere is enough curvature to the "top side" of the airfoil to achieve a purchase just by way of "friction", if you will. Imagine starting a small rc gas engine/prop without wrapping your finger around the blade.
DeleteWouldn't the compression be too much for hand friction?
DeleteYep. As a youngster I went gliding with my Dad a lot and remember starting watching them starting the Tiger Moth like that. You had to wrap your finger tips around the trailing edge and flick when on compression. A bitch when it wouldn't start. My dad with a couple of other ground crew used to start Corsairs with a leather strop over a couple of propeller tips in the islands during WW2. I guess they didn't always have a battery cart but he said they were easy to start by pulling them through. The RNZAF looked after their airplanes better than most and some American pilots sought the New Zealand servicing units help to service their own aircraft.
DeleteThere were women ferry pilots during WWII.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, during WW 2 Russia had women fighter and bomber pilots in combat. Everyone fought who could, because their homeland was invaded. I never saw any pictures of them fighting in a dress, though. Very glamorous but not too practical, especially if you have to bail out.
ReplyDeleteA small flat engine like that can be easily turned through with your hand flat on the prop, with a bigger radial you almost have to have a real grip on the blade to get it to turn over. An interesting aside, I saw a guy crank a DC-3 by wrapping a cargo strap around the prop dome and pulling it with a forklift, kind of like cranking a lawn mower.
ReplyDeleteIs she trying to spin that in the right direction?
ReplyDeleteLooks like she's going counterclockwise.
Is that correct for that prop?
Looks bass ackwards to me.
Civil Air Patrol, not WASP. See the three bladed prop in a white triangle on the shoulder patch. There were some women ferry pilots in WW2, not many, however.
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Deletecousin several times removed, WASP, she was afraid to drive.
DeleteI still can't get past the need to wear a hat on the flightline.
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