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Old 09-11-2009, 03:21 PM
fritzwendel fritzwendel is offline
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Originally Posted by Chooky88 View Post
Cheers for that! the 190 was a ripper of a plane and the rotary engine made it a bit different to other land based fighters (Anyone know why Roatary was preffered by Navies and in line and V engines for Air Forces???)

Are you talking about RADIAL engines, or rotary? The Fdub uses a radial, fixed position motor, not a rotary engine. Rotary engines spin with the propeller, hence the reason they had bad engine torque characteristics.
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