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Default Damned airboats
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:19:04 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

A lot of variable pitch prop planes don't have a governor,

What do you consider " a lot "?
If such a thing even exists they are so vanishingly rare that I have
never encountered such a thing. Never heard a thing, it's absent from
the literature. If the blades move they are moved by a governor. The
governor does not vanish when it runs out of travel, it remains the
connection between the control and the prop. Props had governors as
far back as the thirties.

Casady
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