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Old 11th Jan 2016, 19:54
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Discorde
 
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the wave of noise coming slowly along the cabin as the fuselage resonated from the slight de-synchronisation of the props
The aircraft was fitted with a 'synchrophaser'. Besides adjusting prop pitch to equalise RPMs (no. 3 was the master IIRC) we were told it was supposed to interlace the blades to reduce vibration further but that might be a myth. Sometimes the synchrophaser actually worked.
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