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Re: Identify this airplane? - nzwilliam - 22.07.2010

WhoDatNotSayin Wrote:There has been at least one genuine steam powered aircraft built. It had the useful ability to run the prop backwards when needed...

Ohh! Now that IS handy! If you overshoot the runway on landing you can just back up and have another go :)

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Re: Identify this airplane? - WhoDatNotSayin - 22.07.2010

Quote:If you overshoot the runway on landing you can just back up and have another go :)

You don't need reversible propellers for that, just reverse pitch. I hear they are currently testing the procedure for this: hock: :wink:

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Re: Identify this airplane? - KG64_Cnopicilin - 23.07.2010

WhoDatNotSayin Wrote:

nzwilliam Wrote:

Lejo Wrote:What to think of this airliner.
Not shopped or anything. Still on duty in some countries I've been told...

Sure is, it's standard domestic air transportation here in New Zealand, speed is only limited to how fast your engineers can shovel coal into the furnaces. You don't have them there? ... :wink: :lol:

You're still using those? They were banned in the UK in the 1960s under the Clean Air Act. :mrgreen:

There has been at least one genuine steam powered aircraft built. It had the useful ability to run the prop backwards when needed...

Hey, that's a common thing here in Finland, we call it the Sauna.

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Re: Identify this airplane? - Guest - 23.07.2010

KG64_Cnopicilin Wrote:Hey, that's a common thing here in Finland, we call it the Sauna.

Lol.

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Re: Identify this airplane? - Blasph-Mossquitty - 23.07.2010

Good thing I decided to revisit this site, y'all make me lol. :wink:

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