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From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Multiple Screws
Summary: they probably cheated.
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Date: 23 May 89 04:32:11 GMT
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From: maniac%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George W. Herbert)

In article <6767@cbnews.ATT.COM> military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker) writes:
>incompatible directions of rotation for the engine(s) and propellor(s).
>(Incompatible with forward motion :-)  At the time, it was reported that
>no decision had been made as to which one would be reversed.
>Does anybody know which ship had this problem, and how it was solved?

I don't know how or why, but i somehow believe this.  
In terms of how you would fix it, I would personally just run out and get 
another prop of the right-turning side.  Other option is to drop in a
reversing gear into the wrong-twisting side's powertrain.

eek.  things like this make future engineers crawl into little holes....