Here is a perfect example why barrel whip videos are bull shit.
Watch the prop on this Private plane. Follow the vid to the end.
This is due to how digital pictures are recorded, they record one pixel at a time, from one corner, to the opposite corner, then repeat.
The subject is moving, so from when the first pixel is recorded, to the next, the subject has moved ever so slightly, and the image gets distorted.
So all the barrel whip vids you see on YouTube are pretty much B.S.
What you are seeing is a mostly strait barrel during recoil, and because of digital recording comes out like the two blade prop in the video above.
Not saying there isn't barrel whip, but it is probably only a few thousands of an inch, not a half inch, or more.
A barrel moving that much would permanently bend the barrel.
I have straitened hundreds of crankshafts over the years, and it doesn’t take much deflection to make permanent change.
Watch the prop on this Private plane. Follow the vid to the end.
This is due to how digital pictures are recorded, they record one pixel at a time, from one corner, to the opposite corner, then repeat.
The subject is moving, so from when the first pixel is recorded, to the next, the subject has moved ever so slightly, and the image gets distorted.
So all the barrel whip vids you see on YouTube are pretty much B.S.
What you are seeing is a mostly strait barrel during recoil, and because of digital recording comes out like the two blade prop in the video above.
Not saying there isn't barrel whip, but it is probably only a few thousands of an inch, not a half inch, or more.
A barrel moving that much would permanently bend the barrel.
I have straitened hundreds of crankshafts over the years, and it doesn’t take much deflection to make permanent change.
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