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Old 8 July 2008, 10:03 AM   #5 (permalink)
j ferguson
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Intracoastal Waterway, USA
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Originally Posted by Ransom E. Olds View Post
John: I was afraid you'd ask about rotation. Don't know, really, but Austrian aircraft had engines that exhausted on either right or left and it seems reasonable (to me at least) that prop rotation was uniform in all engine types. Maybe someone can answer this one. Ransom
This may be a spurious concern because of the breeziness of these open cockpits. I think we're only talking about inline engines, in any case, and it does make you wonder why some installations have simple straight stacks and others have collectors and pipes.

thanks, john
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