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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337  Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 13:49 |
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Username Protected wrote: Do the two engines turn opposite directions on a 337? Trick question!!!
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 14:01 |
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Username Protected wrote: Do the two engines turn opposite directions on a 337? Trick question!!!
I think Jeff got what I was talking about. With respect to the longitudinal access of the plane and facing forward, the prop in front is spinning clockwise and the prop in back is spinning counterclockwise (correct?).
Was just thinking through how gyroscopic forces would interact and how it might feel different than a normal twin. They're opposite forces, so they partially cancel out. The front engine is a little farther from the CG so they don't fully cancel.
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 19:26 |
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Username Protected wrote: Personally, I don't like the way they feel : Something about having to big "gyros", in-line, one in front of you and the other in back, makes it heavy and ponderous, particularly in pitch. If you have some late Cessna 210 time, the Skymaster feels like part of the family. Feels heavy compared to the Bonanza certainly, but that is the trade-off for a plane that really hauls a load.
I went from a T210K to a 337G. T210 felt lighter, but the 337G did everything I asked it to do and it hauled more.
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 19:40 |
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Without any critical engine issue with the Skymaster I am sure the extra cost associated with the lower production number "CR" engine would have been hard to justify. Not even sure how those dynamics would work in practice.
I don't think the Adam A500 did any different either.
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 20:43 |
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The girl I was dating said that the 337 was "like when you saw someone with their shoes on backwards"
Always wondered about them but never got the chance to fly one.
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 20 Jun 2024, 22:36 |
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Username Protected wrote: The girl I was dating said that the 337 was "like when you saw someone with their shoes on backwards"
Always wondered about them but never got the chance to fly one.
TN Me too, Tom. I have always found them curiously good looking but have never even sat in one. I remember well as a kid when I was at the Oxnard Airport in 1965. There was a Cessna dealer there who had a brand new Super Skymaster (white with red and black trim) on the ramp. I thought it was really cool.
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Post subject: Re: Cessna P337 Posted: 21 Jun 2024, 06:33 |
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Username Protected wrote: Me too, Tom. I have always found them curiously good looking but have never even sat in one. I remember well as a kid when I was at the Oxnard Airport as a kid in 1965. There was a Cessna dealer there who had a brand new Super Skymaster (white with red and black trim) on the ramp. I thought it was really cool. My first solo flight was in one, a surplus O-2. That was also my first flight being paid, but that's another story and not relevant. Anyway, I flew my first ~90 solo hours in the mix-masher doing pipeline inspection and hauling boxes into bush strips. A dumb 19 year old kid didn't know any better, just figured that's how airplanes were. But I was at the tail end of using those things, maintenance was fed up with them and the last 2 were being phased out. I moved to flying the 310's and aztecs and it was an instant epiphany as to how poor a design the 337 really was.
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