Can anyone comment on why this PB2Y Coronado would have both four and three bladed propellers? Was that normal for the Coronado, and other multi-engined planes? I’ve never seen a pic until now of it not flying.
Not to answer my own question, but here’s one with a little more symmetry.
…ooooh… there it goes changing props on me again.[:D]
Looks like an availablity issue and making due with what one has in the depot.
or…
It was a scheme to make the enemy think it was a different type of plane because of the sound
Nevermind. I found the answer. I guess I just like sharing learning experiences though. Follow the link below for the answer.
This is interesting, I remember a year or two back, FSM had an article from a fellow showing how to built vac form kits and he used Execuform’s Coronado kit for his article and gave it the two different types of prop.
As I recall, there was a short sidebar of the type’s history with the article and the explanation there was that the four blade props came into use on the Coronados that were converted to transports. I don’t recall exactly what it said, but I suppose if the transport variant needed a bit extra pull an extra blade on each wing might help.
Weird, but very interesting.
Karl
Wow, you do learn something new everyday in here. I would knew that the later cornado had two different set of blades on them. Tiger33
I visited the USNaval Aviation Museum in Pensacola several years ago and noticed the PB2Y with the different propellers. I was very puzzeled at the time as to the reason for this. The only I could think of at the time was that the museum people couldn’t find all matching props and put the 2 different types on it with the something was better than nothing. The explanation on the web site listed above does make a lot more sense.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]