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Old 15th Jun 2010, 20:43
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virgo
 
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Windmilling propellers

I cannot convince a non-aircrew colleague of mine that on large supercharged piston engines with constant-speed-propellers, if you lost an engine during cruise due to fuel starvation, it would continue to windmill at the selected rpm with accompanying boost (manifold pressure) and oil pressure. The only indication of the engine failure -if you missed the initial hiccup of parameters - would be the falling cylinder-head or coolant temperature and yaw and decay of airspeed.
Can anyone point me in the direction of getting written confirmation of this ???
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