Please excuse my ignorance, but just watching the video of a start up of a Lancaster at a Museum in Canada. It would seem the engines on opposing wings rotate in different directions. Is this so or just my eyes deceiving me.
It would seem to make sense with stability.
Paul H
I think I have answered my problem on looking more closely and all run a/c/w when viewed from front.
They appear to run opposite to this at various speeds but that is just the oddity of the image being processed. (don't know the technical term for it)
I can sleep happy now.
Paul H
-- Edited by paulh on Saturday 31st of August 2013 10:09:52 AM
Yes, Paul the Merlin outfitted Lancs props rotate CCW when viewed from the front. Not sure about the radial engined MKII although late in the War/early Post War a number of Halifaxes were delivered for use by the French Navy and were termed "left-hand tractors" so I take it the prop rotation was opposite the normal direction of the Bristol Hercules engined Hallies.
The effect you are referring to is called a strobescopic effect caused I believe by the stop frame imagery of filming. This is the same reason why chuck wagon wheels in Old Western movies seem to spin backwards at times and appear at times to have stationary spokes when they should be rotating in one uniform direction. It explains the differences in apparent propellor rotation but it's an illusion. Watch an initial start up carefully and that will reveal the direction the props rotate.
Hope that helps even though you already figured it out to answer your own question
