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30th May 2014, 18:53

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Haraka

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Hi LR,
As I hope you can see, we are in total agreement on the Wrights' prop configuration being very well matched to what they were attempting to achieve.
Haraka
( I'm not qualified to comment on Sopwith's mechanical comments!)