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Old 2nd June 2013 | 13:22
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Yankee Whisky
 
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Think of the enormous disk area and weight of 5 blades on the later model Spits. Changing this spinning disk's plain of rotation suddenly causes an extremely high gyroscopic bending force on the prop shaft, to the point where, if a previous stress failure crack is present, the prop shaft will break off the engine. This will be the case in all props when, over time and numbers of violent maneuvers, a failure will result.
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