Controllable propellers larger than any previously produced were required to harness the mighty horsepower of the six engines powering Consolidated-Vultee's great B-36 Super-bomber.
To Curtiss-Wright went the task of developing for the Army Air Forces an entirely new propeller which reverses in one second and feathers in less than two. Like all Curtiss propellers, operation of its self-contained mechanism is unaffected by temperature and altitude change.
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Aviation News | December 16, 1946
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