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Prop/ A & P Folks:

The pics below are of 2 Hamilton Standard Controllable props with 3-counterweights found at the crash site of a Honduran AF (FAH #7) Condor T-32C that went down in the jungle c. 1942.

They were attached once to 2 Curtiss-Cyclone 1820 F-2 engines of 720 HP each. Can some of the A&P/Prop folks tell us a bit more of what these 2 props show? Were the engines running? one a bit slow perhaps? Tks FAH 619





Pic#1-------> (L/S): Prop shown at the FAH Museum in Tegucigalpa. 4-2004/

poc#2-------> (R/S) Prop shown at La Ceiba c. 3-1999 after recovery.

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Prop blades curled forward usually means a crash under power while blades curled aft means that that engine was at low power or had failed.

Unfortunately, the pictures are of too poor of a grade to tell anything other than the left prop was probably not turning at impact and the right was. A detailed damage analysis would be able to tell you a considerable amount of information about the impact.

Props/A & P Folks:

Included is another angle of pic #1. This one is a front view of a poss engine still running! Photo courtesy primo J.R/FMAH

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