Ford Tri-motor foreplay
Getting a Ford trimotor ready to fly; kind of interesting but long (23:44).
https://youtu.be/MO-UOjoa-ZYI was surprised to find they used a long specialized stick to manually turn over the middle engine. (3:00ff)
Apparently, the Ford has a tendency to "adverse yaw," where turning the wheel to the right results in a momentary swing to the left before it corrects itself. I can't figure that one out, aerodynamically. Unless it had something to do with the control cables being outside the fuselage. (? ? ?)
I thought there was definitely something goofy with that starboard engine (#3?). I read where Bob Cummings of the TV series ferried a trimotor with only the center engine quite a ways, but not sure where I read that or where the origin and destination were.
The Richard Bach they refer to was an aviation author who wrote the best seller
Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
So work your way through it or not, I found the video interesting, especially where you could hear the impulse magnetos when he shut down the port engine. (18:30ff)
Terry, groundlubber, 230RN
LATE CORRECTION: Richard Bach is still alive at 86yo,so the "was" above should be an "is."