[Milsurplus] B-29 Reverse Propellers Switch

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In a message dated 3/23/06 6:27:43 PM, n9zsv at cei.net writes:


> The reverse was used after touchdown to slow the plane.  The reverse refers
> to the pitch only not propeller rotation.
> 73  Gary
> 

I seem to remember a couple of commercial airliners crashing in NJ sometime 
around 1950 because the props reversed at the wrong time.

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA