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Does anyone have information on the current whereabouts of the second XF-11 prototype? The wikipedia articles for two other famous Hughes aircraft, the Hercules (Spruce Goose) and the H-1 Racer, include present-day location (museum) locations. The location of the second XF-11 prototype, if it survives, might make a nice addition to the page.
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From the entry: Hughes did not follow the agreed testing program and communications protocol, and remained airborne almost twice as long as planned. An hour into the flight (after on-board recording cameras had run out of film), a leak caused the right-hand propeller controls to lose their effectiveness....
What does "effectiveness" mean in this case? They stopped working? They didn't work as well as they had previously? Could a better word be substituted for the entry
Thank you. Rissa, copy editor ( talk) 00:13, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Well, there's also this: "Rather than feathering the propeller, Hughes performed improvised troubleshooting...." I think this is a bit gratuitous. Control of the prop-pitch was lost, which made feathering it difficult, if not impossible. It was the first flight of a complex drive system; there really wasn't a manual yet. Jororo05 ( talk) 02:53, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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Does anyone have information on the current whereabouts of the second XF-11 prototype? The wikipedia articles for two other famous Hughes aircraft, the Hercules (Spruce Goose) and the H-1 Racer, include present-day location (museum) locations. The location of the second XF-11 prototype, if it survives, might make a nice addition to the page.
Strawtarget (
talk) 20:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
From the entry: Hughes did not follow the agreed testing program and communications protocol, and remained airborne almost twice as long as planned. An hour into the flight (after on-board recording cameras had run out of film), a leak caused the right-hand propeller controls to lose their effectiveness....
What does "effectiveness" mean in this case? They stopped working? They didn't work as well as they had previously? Could a better word be substituted for the entry
Thank you. Rissa, copy editor ( talk) 00:13, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Well, there's also this: "Rather than feathering the propeller, Hughes performed improvised troubleshooting...." I think this is a bit gratuitous. Control of the prop-pitch was lost, which made feathering it difficult, if not impossible. It was the first flight of a complex drive system; there really wasn't a manual yet. Jororo05 ( talk) 02:53, 2 July 2023 (UTC)