To simplify logistics during wartime and because it had 4 engines, they all rotated clockwise. Any and all references to direction are as seen from the pilots point of view. That's a hard fast rule in aviation.
Torque roll is officially known as "P Factor." P as in Propeller. The propeller rotating one direction tended to make the airplane roll (torque) in the opposite direction... much more pronounced at higher angles of attack and on single engine aircraft. Because the P Factor was spread across the wing, it had little effect on 4 engine aircraft.So, why wasn't "torque roll" (or whatever the appropriate aeronautical term is) a problem?
Meant to add the logistics factor to that.... using 2 different rotation engines meant that 2 different QEC's had to be kept in stock. Was a simpler supply problem with just the one.More useless trivia.... engines of that era were built up and shipped as QEC's. Stood for Quick Engine Change. Everything firewall forward, with the exception of the prop and cowling was included in a QEC.... engine, engine mount, carburetor(s), generator, hydraulic pump(s).... everything. All you had to do was disconnect everything at the firewall and reconnect the replacement. An 8 hr "engine" change could be done in 2-3 hrs on a QEC. The carb was already adjusted to the engine it was mounted to.... didn't have to take it off one engine and install on the other. Same with the exhaust plumbing... generator.... everything. In wartime, downtime was bad. That carried over to the airlines where an airplane sitting on the ground was making zero revenue.... time is money.
Last month an unmanned drone launched.... an unmanned drone... from it's weapons bay.
Just one step closer to Skynet.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-...6/valkyrie-uas-launches-small-uas-weapons-bay
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This was not actually "poor aerodynamics," it was intentionally done and in fact predates stealth. Caution... long winded explanation follows...I believed the Stealth planes had poor aerodynamics ..And needed " Above average " pilots to keep them up and perhaps more difficult to land them in side winds and rain. And so can be wrong
BTW, my XS1100 engine rotates in the opposite direction from the XS650. They shoulda' called it the Yamaha RB1100.
Who the hell would want to be the first ones off the boatDoolittle goes to war...
Who the hell would want to be the first ones off the boat
Not much of a take off run