da Rock,

In days of old when knights were bold I flew EC-121's for the Air Force for several years. The airplanes were powered by four Pratt & Whitney 3350's equipped with Hamilton Standard constant speed props.

Your going to have to do some explaining to convince me how a fixed pitch prop with an approximate pitch of 8" is going to perform like a constant speed prop exhibiting a pitch of 4" and a 6" pitch and not like an 8" fixed pitch. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Sorry, but I'm throwing the hook on this one not biting, ain't possible.................... but I'm willing to listen. Please enlighten this crusty old fossil of an Air Force pilot how that works and how a 8" fixed pitched prop exhibits all those variable pitch charcteristics.