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Old 02-03-2019, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickgm60 View Post
No, that's not what I see. The props are counter-rotating, but in the opposite direction of the P-38s'. I don't see how 2 engines that powerful could rotate in the same direction. Early experimentation may have had the props in the P-38 rotation configuration, but never rotating in the same direction.
I see the same. I found a Wikipedia article that explains it. They started with the props counter-rotating ‘outwards’ and then swapped to ‘inwards’ after the initial failed trials.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nort...2_Twin_Mustang
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