Originally Posted by
Danny42C
MPN11,
(our Posts crossed). Had very few hours on the XIV and XXII, it was a bit intimidating, but the people who got used to the things swore by them. If you fed the power in roughly at slow speed, the engine would try to twist the aircraft round the crankshaft !
Yup, I can imagine. Too much engine, not enough airframe
Gorgeous machines, though. You were lucky to get to fly them, even if not in combat. Not that many people have that tick in the box
