Yes, the propeller blades can be moved into reverse pitch to shorten the landing roll. This ability is not limited to turbo-propeller engines and is/was common on the big radial piston engines mounted on multiengine airplanes in the days before turboprops were common.
I'm a friend of the captain, who has since hired on with Atlas. I was just riding along. I flew smaller airplanes in Alaska for a living 1991-2001. This and my other one posted on Youtube are my only videos.
Port Alsworth is on Lake Clark, not Iliamna.
AKPilot 1 year ago
Yes, the propeller blades can be moved into reverse pitch to shorten the landing roll. This ability is not limited to turbo-propeller engines and is/was common on the big radial piston engines mounted on multiengine airplanes in the days before turboprops were common.
Ubertone 2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, Do these DC-6's use "reverse" prop to aid in braking?
macsm 2 years ago 2
It would be even more interesting if we all knew where Port Allsworth is. N America, Australasia, PNG. Africa?
tango15 3 years ago
Port Allsworth is in southeast Alaska
Deadmeat996 3 years ago 3
Yeah its on lake iliamna, at the bottom middle of Alaska.
RandomJensen 3 years ago 2
Last time I looked there was only one Alaska.
klesmer 3 years ago
It's hard to tell because of the glare, is the runway paved or no?
Redmanfms 4 years ago
The runway is not paved its gravel, been there a couple times.
RandomJensen 3 years ago
I'm a friend of the captain, who has since hired on with Atlas. I was just riding along. I flew smaller airplanes in Alaska for a living 1991-2001. This and my other one posted on Youtube are my only videos.
Ubertone 4 years ago
Great stuff!!! Are you flying for Everts or NAC? Got more DC-6 video? Please share ;-)
a26invader 4 years ago