Warbird props.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3333

Jack Frost wrote:

IIRC, back when the CAF got the Martin B-26 flying, it first had 3 bladed props from a C-123 installed. Overall performance was marginal to poor and there were airframe vibrations. They were later replaced with 4 bladers and the vibration disappeared and performance was normal. Can't remember where or what the 4 bladed ones came off of, though.

Didn't they trash the 4-blade 'toothpick' props with a nosegear collapse?

Jack Frost · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 4:55 pm

.[/quote] Didn't they trash the 4-blade 'toothpick' props with a nosegear collapse?[/quote]

Yeah, I do remember the nose gear collapse but as to toothpick props, I dunno. My 75 year old memory chip isn't what is once was!

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Gentlemen, I was wrong about the Bearcat .It was the eighties If you know what I mean.Go ahead everbody throw there greasy rag at me.

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

kenlyco wrote:

Gentlemen, I was wrong about the Bearcat .It was the eighties If you know what I mean.Go ahead everbody throw there greasy rag at me.

No problem, we were just trying to set the record straight. Everybody makes mistakes, including myself!

I just thought it was very odd, as I had two very good friends who have known the Whittingtons since the 70's. They told me a lot of things about the Whittingtons which were not public knowledge and not once did I hear them talk about a contra-rotating prop Bearcat. I was going to say, if true, that would have been the best kept warbird secret in the history of aviation.

Thanks for following up on that info, btw!

Dan K · **Posted:** Fri May 23, 2008 1:55 pm

Dan K wrote:

kenlyco wrote:

I hope this is not to stupid of a thought. :roll:

Is it possible to swing a four bladed prop on a Hellcat, early Corsair so on,is it a airframe ,engine app. gear, or is it just not to be?

Definitely to be! Would've manifested itself in the F6F-6, but which never went into production.

Dug in a little deeper on "special" Hellcats. The pic I originally posted isn't an XF6F-6, but rather the XF6F-2 nicknamed "Fuzzy Wuzzy". Check the following links for more pics & info on this unique Hellcat. Pretty cool.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawk914/1523273678/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawk914/1522410535/

Here's a look at one of the two XF6F-6's. I think this pic comes from PAX River (But my memory isn't getting any younger).

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/christophe. ... off6f6.jpg

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