I was reading Kai Petri's interesting and informative 'FW 190' thread (have you ever noticed that
all of Kai's threads seem to be interesting and informative? How does he DO that??
) Anyhoo, it got me to thinking, and, like most mavens of WWII aviation, I am aware that the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a twin-engined fighter that was provided with counter-rotating props - ie the left one rotated Clockwise, and the right one rotated Counter-Clockwise (NOTE: evidently, they made some kind of adjustment to the Lightnings supplied to the British so that the right one rotated
Anti-Clockwise instead of
Counter-Clockwise - those Brits! They always want it
their way! ...but I digress)
I'm not aware of ANY other twin-engined aircraft of the period that was fitted with counter-rotating props - B-25, Mossie, Beaufighter, Ju-88, Bf-110, B-26, PBY, A-20 and I'm sure there are a host of others - none, to my knowledge, were fitted with counter-rotating props - only the P-38. So, assuming that I am correct in my understanding, WHY was the P-38 fitted with counter-rotating props? Did it have to do with the unusual 'twin-boom' planform?
And, as a final adjunct to the original question.......
..... why are the Brits so pissy?
-whatever
-Lou