John Slade wrote:

Yes the exhaust pipes are behind the spar and they go that far out
to reduce the hot exhaust impinging on the prop.

Wouldn't that put too much heat on the spar? A melted spar would be really
bad news!

It is easy to insulate the spar but real hard to insulate the prop :-)

Paul Lamar
 
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