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Message started by Tim Capps on Aug 30th, 2020 at 1:56am

Title: Re: Tim Capps Says Hi, Wonders if Anyone Flew DC-3
Post by CoastalDriver on Sep 30th, 2020 at 8:51pm
I forgot to say they creaked and groaned and were unbelievably noisy inside and up front you also had the hiss or squawks of the heater and hydraulic systems as well. Brake squeal and groan was noticeable on the ground but really after they got going you could not hear most of this as they were hardly sound proofed and those PW 1830s made a hell of a racket at full power but settled into a lovely synchronised rumble in the cruise. You also picked up the props out of synch really quickly by the change in pitch from one side to the other in fact you set them to synch first by RPM then by ear to fine tune them.

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