Comments by "GivenFirstName FamilyFirstName" (@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935) on "The Westland Whirlwind Reassessed" video.

  1.  @lanse77lithgow  You edited out your reference to Geoffrey crashing at an airshow. (!)
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  2. De Havilland’s props were licensed American Hamilton Standards, just about the most reliable props ever made. It was a waste fitting two relatively recent and sophisticated constant speed propellers to Mickey Mouse engines producing a pathetic 900 horsepower. The very earliest Griffon Spitfire, the Mk XII had more power from a single V-12 with less displacement than the total of the two Peregrines and needed a single propeller. Nothing was faster than the Spitfire XII at low level. Dropping the Peregrine made perfect sense.
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  3. Because it is NOT important. The vast majority of twins don’t have them and are just fine. The vocal YouTube pro counter rotating propellor experts don’t seem to have been trained and successfully examined for many multi-engine ratings on their (probably non-existent) pilot’s licences. The various effects are well documented in the books and are measurable but they are not SIGNIFICANT.
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  4.  @lanse77lithgow  Airshow crash into the crowd was the prototype pre-Sea Vixen.
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  5. Nonsense, the Mustang I was exceptionally fast at low and medium altitudes, the RAF used them for fast low level photo reconnaissance until the end if the war. No more were made after the development of the Merlin P-51.
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  6. It was a dim idea using two obsolete engines and the plane is only popular from the old plastic bag Airfix kit! It cost the same as the Airfix single seat fighter kits when the next size up ‘series two’ Airfix Mosquito cost significantly more. 1960s aviation enthusiasts to-be got a cheaper pocket money friendly Mosquito substitute. The Airfix kit made more of an impression than the tiny production real aeroplane. Given the tiny numbers made did it get cut down span (fatter inner span aerofoil) De Havilland prop blades rather than correct section custom made smaller propellers? You can’t blame De Havilland for not being able to de-bug a plane that was an obvious short service life dead end.
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  7. The Americans abandoned the P-38 in Northern Europe, if they could not make it work who else could?
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  8. You think of time🙄 There was no Whirlwind when the wooden fixed pitch props were in use.
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  9. And there were pressurised high altitude Spitfires in service anyway.
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