Polikarpov I-16 "D-EPRN" - Testflight with difficult landing 2017
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Polikarpov I-16 "D-EPRN" at Lachen-Speyerdorf, 03. September 2017
Great surprise to see this little russian warbird there in action. The Sound of this 1000hp engine is awesome.
It seems to be some kind of test flight with touch and go .. far away the plane made some aerobatics, sadly to far away and high to make a video .. the first try to land this little beast was not really successful, but second try it was smooth and clean.
It makes air combat less stressful knowing that the landing will be far more dangerous.
Must be fun 🤣Thanks for watching my video 👍😎
LMAO!!
Ich habe Bilder vom Erstflug vor 9 Jahren
WOW I never knew that any of these still existed. Such an awesome plane. Thanks for posting!!!
I saw this very same aeroplane having its engine tested backn in July 2017 in Lachen-Speyerdorf. The sound of the engine was truly awesome! And fabulous to see the video of it in flight. Well done to the enthusiasts who brought it into flying condition - my kind of guys!
What a beautiful plane. And the engine sound when flying, marvelous..
Sounds like a tractor
Sounds like💩💩🙁😢
moscow troll? ?
@@abcdecghijklmnimbicile
Outstanding little fighter and an amazing sound they produce. The more I watch and can gather info on, they're becoming my #1 favorite. This one sounds really healthy and take special care of it. It was almost a terrible crash but he saved it. Great flying.
First time I see a flying I-16 not only from WWII footages. Thanks!
I-16 helped to defend China against Japanese in the late 1930‘s，I will just show respect for them.
And they were very active with the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War 1936-39.
Unlucky choice of causes... both lost unfortunately :-/
@@964cuplove
The magnificent Bf-109 also lost, fortunately
@Patrick Ancona - you use pretty big words for someone who clearly has no idea what he is talking about.
@Patrick Ancona "Stop it, get some help!"
What an awesome sound. If I remember right this fighter wasn't much of a fight against German fighters. Awesome to see one flying. That sound is awesome and it sounds exactly the same as the old war news reels. Looks like it falls right out of the sky when bringing it in for a landing, what a sink rate.
I think it´s a real challenge to fly this little beast. But sound & sight are just priceless. Thanks for watching my video 👍
While the I-16 did give up a big advantage in setting the initiative due to being slower and with a lower ceiling, I would say overall pilot quality was the bigger factor. The I-16 had advantages it could press, especially at lower altitudes, but it would be up to the pilot to use them. It was even more demanding than the Me-109 to fly (which was itself famously difficult) so a below average pilot was at a severe disadvantage.
A bigger problem for the I-16 was that it pretty much set the bar the other more famous WW2 fighters were designed to beat. It's like saying the Zero didn't do well against the Hellcat and Corsair. Well... roughing up zeroes was the whole point of building those planes wasn't it?
snowstalker36 the BF109 was not built in response to the I16 though. The BF109 was made from the design of the civilian BF108 and was the to be the first fighter of the new illegal Luftwaffe built quietly in secret. The world was already heading towards single engine mono wing fighters before the I16, the soviets just beat the world to the punch but aircraft around the world were already in the design stages before the Spanish Civil War including jet fighters.
The problem with the Zero fighter wasn’t that it was high tech and super advanced because it wasn’t, it was extremely light with a good powerful engine though not super powerful. The problem was that it was small and light weight and didn’t have any kind of defensive armor to protect any of its systems or the pilot but it was extremely maneuverable making it dangerous to dogfight at low altitudes as everyone else around the world built bigger heavier aircraft with large powerful engines and armor to protect its sensitive systems and the pilots who flew them making them less maneuverable at low altitudes than the zero however pretty much every US and British fighter could out run a zero and just climb away from it at a distance turn around and dive down at the slower lower flying zeros strafing them into ribbons. Yeah Hellcat was designed to fight the zero but it was always easier to boom and zoom a zero than to dig fight it. The Japanese tried other aircraft but ended up switching to suicide kamikaze tactics instead of trying to build newer faster fighters.
@@keithwhisman late in the war Japan did produce a modern high altitude 1800 horsepower fighter. Fortunately Japan lacked the industrial and raw materials means to produce these hi performance platforms in any meaningful number. Off the top of my head I think it was called Shinda or something like that. Built by Kawasaki industries.
@@tomstulc9143 Yes, They went into the future and stole a set of plans from Burt Rutan.
In Russia it was commonly called Ishachyok, which means Little mule. Good job restoring it.
it's a play on words. I-16=> I-shestnadtsat=> ishak = mule. And the Germans called him a rat. Probably for the small size - the length is 5.8-6.2 meters.
@James Mock смотри Советский фильм "Истребители" 1939г
That is the beastliest sounding engine I've ever heard!
Thanks for documenting the flight. Fantasy of Flight just purchased one of these and it is insightful to see and hear one flying. Nice camera work too.
There are a lot of new views on this video since Kermitt bought his I-16 😎Thanks for watching my video👍
Glide ratio of a brick. Outstanding pilot skills.
thats what i was thinking. sink rate like a boss!
I've never seen one in person, but it appears that there is very poor forward or side visibility, the pilot can't really judge the approach when flying straight in. Look at them taxiing around 7:30 on. The cockpit sits far back and the wings are far forward. You can see the pilot is in a slip most of the way down just so they can see where they are going. The main gear has a narrow track and it has a short arm from the mains to the tailwheel to make matters worse. You have to be a darn good pilot to take that thing up for the first time!
Indeed good piloting, the absence of flaps dont help in this case
Bas Beek that’s what I was thinking. It appeared to me that he was landing awfully fast that’s when noticed there were no flaps. This will never be a plane that you gently float across the threshold, but I guess it was never meant to be.
this plane is one of the most difficult to drive in the world...
with great respect to the pilot from Russia!
the Bf109 is more difficult to drive at ground...
@@leneanderthalien no, not really
The most difficult thing on the I-16 was cleaning and releasing the landing gear!
This is pretty neat. Great to see a rare bird like this fly. Thanks!
Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
Как говорил Валерий Чкалов: "Кто научится летать на И-16, тот сможет летать на чём угодно!" / As Valery Chkalov said: “Whoever learns to fly an I-16 will be able to fly anything!”
Спасибо! Старые самолёты - это просто сказка! / Thank you! Old planes are just a fairy tale!
Love the sound of that big round motor!
Impressive little bird. Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
Увидеть летающий и 16 - сказка! Спасибо, друзья, всех вам благ!!!
Ишачок в натуре.
You are right guys. It is incredible show.
Хорошая машина!
Как говорил В. П. Чкалов в фильме. Видел вживую И-16 в Новосибирске, звук двигателя соответствует Ан-2 (двиг. АШ-62ИР). В 1991 году удалось поуправлять этой замечательной машиной.
Beautiful restoration. From the thumbnail, I first thought this was going to be an R/C model! I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't.
You have to have nothing but respect to the Soviet pilots who took this aircraft into battle as it was totally outclassed by the Bf 109- literally hundreds were destroyed by the Jagdwaffe in the first few weeks of Barbarossa. The I16 was even bested by the Bf110!
That is a beautiful aircraft with an incredible sound!
Really an excellent pilot. First landing was not working...go around. Second try was beautiful. Looks like a little beasty to fly!
No flaps, landing speed was pretty frisky, and you can't see. Russians aren't a bunch of little girls. That's for sure.
j' Adore ce I-16 il est vrai que c' est un avion remarquable pour l' époque! c' Est un appareil à prendre avec des pincettes aussi bien au décollage qu' à l' atterrissage, il faut dire qu' à l' époque les pilotes du Polikarpov ont eux la même difficulté, mais bravo quand même!!! Merci pour cette vidéo...
Yes great plane, very impressive to see live. Thanks for watching my video.
Génial en réalité et je dois ajouter que c'était mon avion préféré dans le jeu World of warplanes
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First time I saw an I-16 at a CAF Airshow many years ago, I believe it was the only flying example, or maybe there were two? Now there seems to be several. I've been fascinated with this cool little plane ever since. Appears to have the glide ratio of a brick, however. Awesome video, wonderful airplane.
None of the original I-16 were preserved in a flying condition and only 2 or 3 survived at all. Several planes (4 or 6) were built from scratch in Russia at Novosibirsk in 1990-s for a foreign collectors (from New Zeland, I believe). They used some original parts, found in museums and at a crash sites as templates to build a new ones. They also had a full set of original production drawings. The engines, used on those are modern variant of M-62, which is still used on An-2 untility biplane and still in production in Russia and China. The props are also non-original, since modern engines have reduced take-off power and lower RPMs, then those, used in the 1930-40.
The same workshop, that built these I-16s, also reconstructed I-153, I-15, MiG-3 and IL-2.
When the I-16 was first produced in 1934, it was the most advanced fighter plane in the world. The I-16 was this first unbraced cantilever low wing fighter with retractable landing gear.
Unfortunately the pilots low seat position and the big round engine and airframe made vision on landing very difficult. America WW2 Navy aircraft with round engines had a seat that could be adjusted upward for better vision on landing.
Amoung the features it did not have were flaps...which made it really hard to land.
It shows, with a very high landing speed and steep glidepath, a landing is like a near crash experience in this plane and the pilot needs to know what he does.
ziggy 2shus "When the I-16 was first produced in 1934, it was the most advanced fighter plane in the world."
It never ceases to amaze me how fast aircraft design advanced during the 1930's. If a country built a top of the line fighter with a cutting edge design in 1930, it was hopelessly obsolete by 1935.
France got caught up in that trap. They invested in a huge military buildup in the early thirties, only to find that their aircraft designs were already outdated by the time Germany started getting frisky. (not just aircraft either)
How does one go back to the French Chamber of Deputies and Senate and say... "Hey, you know all those millions of francs we spent on planes a couple of years ago? Yeah... All wasted. We need more millions of francs.".
ziggy
ziggy 2shus Not unusual for fighters of all types to have height adjustable seats.
That engine has a great sound.
Cute little plane, and a 1000hp engine 🤣Thanks for watching my video 👍😎
This one is the Weight 1820 as found in the B-17 and T-28, no turbo and straight stack exhausts. The 1820 has the biggest production jugs of any aircraft engine at 200 cubic inches each. Back in the day the Russians used a locally built version of the 1820.
Super Film und klasse zusammengeschnitten, der Sternmotorklang kommt richtig raus. Danke.
Danke für´s anschauen :) ... ja ich stand an einer guten Stelle ohne viel störenden Umgebungslärm... die Kiste ist schon beeindruckend.
Genau und das Video wurde nicht mit dieser Scheiss Dudelmusik unterlegt wo zzt jedes Video unterlegt wird.
Es ist doch schøn wenn der Motor seine eigenen Klang spielen darf, und das ist richtig schøn zu høren, hast Du sehr gut hinbekommen, Respekt.
Despite its crudity of construction, the Polikarpov I-16 was a plane *WAY* ahead of its time when it first became operational. It was well-built, and could easily out-fly contemporary fighters of the time. That's why when the Spanish Republican Air Force started using them in 1936 at the start of the Spanish Civil War they quickly gained air superiority of the Spanish Nationalists flying German and Italian fighters until the Bf 109B and C models showed up in 1937 with their vastly superior diving speed.
Brave pilot...Excellent
...indeed, love the sound of that big radial and the whistling on a high speed pass. I can imagine with that huge radial up front and those stubby wings it was challenge to set down.
Sort of like a slightly larger version of the Gee Bee racer.
Sweet! Love unique aircraft like this.The torque on that plane must have been brutal, like the Gee Bee racer.
Jezzzzzzzzus thank You for not using music in this video!!!!
That's a bless!!!
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The world's first low-wing monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear in History! Hail, Soviet Union!
You can see that he was slipping the plane to the left to loose altitude with out gaining airspeed but with no flaps he looked to be landing pretty hot anyways. There is an I-16 at Pride Aviation at Rockford, IL airport going through total restoration
It seems the "new" build I-16 don´t have flaps. So slipping this plane is the best way to lose speed. And to see anything in front of you. Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
@@705547 I'm a pilot myself and it weird for it NOT to have flaps with such a big engine hanging in front lol
This plane look like an absolute beast to fly and especially to land. What a hand full. Beautiful restoration. the forward visibility on takeoff is so bad it's almost better to look backwards as it would offer more forward visibility.
Very nice capture here-- camera work & sound are Large. Applause to you for equipping with a nice microphone and likely a foam windscreen. Only thing lacking is a prop filter for the lens. Amazing this pilot didn't use the "flaperons". Landing speed on those birds is high, gotta slow'em down.
Hi, thanks for you´re kind words, but i have to dissapoint you. I used a standard Sony CX250, no external microphone, no windscreen. I was standing on a clear area with no people or buildings, and there was no wind, .. so sound was fine. For next season i have a new cam with external microphone and deadcat .. so it will be intresting if i can improve quality. Thanks for watching my video :)
Excellent film footage and sound.
Glad you enjoyed my video.😀 Thanks for watching😎👍
Damm must be a real nightmare on across wind landing
The pilot is a wise man - when his landings started to go sour, he gave it power and immediately got out of it. Tricky plane to fly!!!
No flaps.
@@dylantosta4218 Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
Wow, it almost looks like a less dramatic GeeBee Racer. Absolutely incredible to see one of these
Brave pilot...Flying ace!Excellent
Thank you 705547. It's a beautiful vid to watch.
Glad you enjoyed my video. Thanks for watching 😎👍
Tough little bird! Music to my ears. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching :)
This aircraft is the most Badass aircraft ever made!
Was wondering what happened to the flaps but no flaps in budget when the Ruskies built it, still a beautiful plane with a great sound. Would make a great RC model. 👍
Flaps are capitalist decadence.
The aircraft does have flaps, but they're rarely used as landing without them is considered easier (or at least more predictable) in the i-16
Amazing aircraft for it's time. Beautiful.
These I-16 always remind me of the pirate planes from TaleSpin, what a great cartoon :-P
great video with an amazing sound !
Thanks for watching my video and the Kind words :)
MrRocking4ever "great video with an amazing sound !"
I agree. I don't know what the actual performance of the plane was, but the engine sounds like it's screaming "HORSEPOWER!!!"...
You should hear that sound with five of them flying together. Outstanding!
Thank you for the nice video!
Thanks for watching :)
Jurgis Kairis - the best))) Health and long life))))
This is Jurgis Kairis ua-cam.com/video/AdhLWnSlJN8/v-deo.html
Thank you for the video!
Thanks for watching :)
Looks and sounds incredible and a handful!
I don´t think it ever gets boring to fly this thing 👍
He came in sideways the second time, so he could see where he was going, great flying skills.
That's just not how it works. He was most likely crabbing as there was a crosswind
@@kylekingsberry5680 I don't think so, his left wing in down, I think he's sideslipping.
This airplane approaches frighteningly fast for a landing and doesn't seem to want to slow down during the landing roll! I wonder what the forward visibility is like with that huge radial monster up-front.
Yes, fast indeed. The wing is short, designed for speed; airspeed has to stay pretty fast for landing. And short-coupled fuselage makes it worse-- not enough rudder authority at slow speed. What I don't understand is why no use of flaps for landing. Or why no flaps in the design?
Naveen S the view is pretty good for landing however the thing is very unstable in all axises
There is no forward visibility when landing. Literally. You can try yourself in War Thunder (free to play), and you can see me landing one with much smaller radial - namely I-153, the "previous" USSR main fighter before I-16, - using pilot view, simulator mode, in this video: ua-cam.com/video/bReHrgTtyb8/v-deo.html . P.S. Obviously never try that trick wave-breaker landing in real life in _any_ plane, of course. :)
Fins FinsT I play WT
Fins FinsT and what I'm saying is it has good forward vis until you point the nose up
Fast landing and short coupled. And on a bumpy field to boot. Whew. I've landed a Skybolt and a Pitts but that looks tough
So this would be the next level for you. I´ve seen a Pitts S1-11b, that must be also challenging. Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
This airplane's middle name must be Pugnacious. It would be the star of any airshow I can imagine.
Sadly the actual owner does not fly to airshows. Would be great if he would give it a go 😎👍
Советская Авиация всегда на высоте!!!🖒
it`s a flying engine..
A bigger version of a GeeBee that was pushing the limits to how small a plane could be built around the largest possible engine
@@heartland96a but this plane has a not so big engine
Boing! Thanks for posting, great vid.
Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
Wow! Never thought i would ever see one of these fly!
I-16s did not have elevator trim either. To and from combat it was flow at a precise cruise speed at which it was balanced enough to make the stick neutral so the pilots didn't have to fight stick pressure.
Now THAT is a gutsy pilot. I would have liked to bail out. Or wake up hoping it was a bad dream. No option for him in such a rare plane.
beautiful would love to see it fly motor sound is awesome
One of six flying replicas imported by Sir Tim Wallis in New Zealand,Kermit Weeks is currently looking at buying one from the old CAF collection,these utilise cut down Antonov AN-2 propellers on their Shvetsov radial engines,short coupled fuselage makes them tricky to handle as can be seen here !
Cool plane, great recovery from that bounce, not a moment's hesitation to go around.
Landing the Mosca was an work of art, it can not be teached properly and must be got and undestood by its pilot by himself. Its was a very muscular machine to hold, and a very nervous plane reaching the stall point on nose high attitude. She descended on a steep diagonal left wing down attitude if you let her go. It got a lot of accidents during the landing and during the takeoff too. The second try shows this vicious landing characteristics. Pilots who master it could land it on a rough field tho.
During WWII the URSS still got his kill share with "the little donkey", even until 1943 when it was relegated to second line duty.
When a plane earns a nickname like "fly", "lil' donkey", "rat", "snoobnose", "shorty", you know got his enemy's respect.
Interesting informations, Thanks 😎👍
The design was innovative and had several firsts. In the hands of a skilled hunter, it could deal death to early Me 109 pilots, who had the edge in speed over The Fly.
Великолепно! Молодцы!
Man, it looks like its hard to get that little plane to slow down enough to land!!!!! I love the look of those things tho and they are made mostly out of wood!!!!!!
Amazing little bird. Thanks for watching my video 😎👍
For some reason the pilot didn't lower the flaps, that would've made a huge difference.
The Harley Davidson of the sky....What a great sound!!
Except Harleys sound crap!
Well I don't think they do because I love an internal combustion engine that has that lovely choppy sound and they both have that. So I think It's great!! Oh and a lot of others do too Squid but I guess we are all different.
Compliments to the pilot....for having the "testicular fortitude" to get this antique Russian P.O.S. off the ground. Seems a bit short for control....looks like to wants to fall like a stone....and i hope their quality was better than....Anything else made in Russia at the time.
It was. Every notice how a ton of the famous WW2 fighters debut in 1936? That's because this thing came out in 1934 and scared the crap out of everyone. Most people only imagine the Soviets post Stalin's purges in their head when thinking of the country, but in the early 30s the dream was still alive and they were a world leader in many technology areas. Aviation was one of them. Honestly, their aircraft designs remained pretty dang good throughout, they were just let down by continually behind the curve powerplant teams.
Every plane with a short fuselage, short wings and a big powerful radial engine is difficult to land. Remember the Gee Bee family................................
I saw this replica flying at La Ferte Alais (a remote suburb of Paris) in 1996. I remember the speed at landing : breathtaking! ! !
Дедушка-легенда!!!
Спасибо за просмотр! 😎👍
Glad he didn't try to salvage that first one. Good decision. Tricky little bugger. Good pilot.
Best plane sound .music when it runs away.
Yeah this bird rocks 😎👍
Habe es zu meiner playlist I 16 hinzugefügt.
What a sound! But the visibility on landing would scare me too much!! No flaps? No speed brakes? That is a brass balls airplane!
Speed breaks are very rare on piston fighters like the P-38 Lightning or T-28 Trojen. You'll find speed breaks mainly on all jet fighters
Enterprise206 Yeah, air brakes were only common on dive bombers, they almost were never on fighters, and most interwar and biplane fighters don’t have flaps
3:25 thats a decent side slip, these things are exceedingly difficult to see out of. The large engine blocks 100% of the runway and forward visibility at slow speed (high angle of attack). You can see that he did not flare on that attempt, which could have damaged the landing gear. He probably mis-judged the height due to having little to no experience in this type. Which has a very tall fuselage perch.
This thing looks like it flies and lands like an over gross Pitts with half its wing area missing.
Beautiful airplane......monoplane with retractable gear..... First Flight 30 dec.1933
High stall speeds and short runways suck! Especially with a tail dragger that is all engine, it’s not like you can get on the brakes as soon as you touch down. Excellent pilot skills!
What a scream! That would have been terrifying if it had been used for ground attack.
Strike Raid it was.
That is one Radical sounding round motor !
Звууук!!! Это звук Эпохи! Это звук времени.
Yeah 👍😎 Thanks for watching my video.
@@705547 Удачи Вам!
Good idea getting it collected before making it land full-stop one more time around never hurts if you have the fuel and the patience to handle a plane that’s as challenging as this one is to get safely on the ground.
В России я видел И-16 только в музее ВМФ в Ленинграде. Висел на тросах под потолком. 60-е годы...
Landing gear made of indestructible Stalinium alloy
mattfgln Da comrade, according to sekrit dokumints you can slam it to the ground and nothing will happen, a perfectly soft landing)))))
Allright Matt, that's funny!
Я о чем вам и толкую, взлетел хуй сядешь
Such a short coupled acft , you had better be on your toes.
I believe these planes fought on the Republican side during the Spanish civil war.
Yes, that's true!!
Yep, they did. They had 600up engine than. This plane was hard to handle - pilot has to be an ace.
It was capable to fight bf109A-C, to D and higher versions it was losing.
@@ZhekUA - very different planes. The I-16 has some modern features, but there's still much of the design philosophy of the biplanes that preceded her.
@@steve1978ger sure for mid 1930's it was a modern plane. USA had small same sport plane, forgot the name something like Geebee it was very hard to handle too.
And yes I-16 is a monoplane version of I-15 biplane and I-153bis gullwing biplane.
Interesting looking airplane, I bet it's a handful to fly.
Seems to be challenging 😎👍
Great noise! That thing is basically just a flying engine.
So the Soviets had the idea to put a fighter fuselage on to a large bomber engine and it worked. It is an awesome airplane. The US did the same thing with the Republic P47 Thunderbolt with a huge bomber engine up front of a fighter fuselage.
The first single engine un-braced low wing monoplane fighter with retractable gear. Most fighters in WW 2 were this configuration.
Looks like a 1930s Gee Bee racer in camaflouge.
Except the Gee Bee is twice as big in diameter and half the length of the D-EPRN lol !
@Watt Waster sounds like a tractor engine with mods.. kind nice,
The Gee Bee racers had a bad habit of killing their pilots.
Now THAT'S a radial
The engine is slightly modified and uprated Wright R-1820 (license built as M25, then modified and renamed to M62 and then M63). Judging by the cannon barrels protruding from the wings this is I-16 type 27 or type 28 (so it's either M62 or M63, my bet is on M62)
Really not a bad plane when it was first introduced. It saw a fair amount of combat in China and during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
but already was too old for ww2
The world's first monoplane fighter to have a retractable undecarriage. Designed by Anatole Polikarpov.
And it's made of wood & milk!
The next fighter designed by the Polikarpov bureau, the I-17, had an inline V-12 engine, making it the first fighter of the so-called "International Fighter" design. That is, it was a low wing monoplane with retractable main landing gear, enclosed cockpit, and a V-12 inline water cooled engine. Look at all the WWII fighters that later used that layout.
Nikolai Polikarpov !!!
bullshit
Позорный упрёк нам, не сохранившим ни одной "Чайки" для истории. Живая легенда Поликарпова - живой памятник героическим "сталинским соколам"!!!
Это не Чайка, это Ишачок
The Grumman Wildcat and the I16 definitely have very similar sounds in flight. That botched approach shows that birds strength. Most birds would have crunched the gear.
No, not most. It wasn't THAT hard.
They never did sort out the problems with the retractable landing gear system jamming if I remember correctly to where a set of wire cutters was standard issue so if it did jam the pilot could cut the cables and (hopefully) drop and lock the gear down.
Mein Gott, ein fliegendes Triebwerk!!!!!!!!!
Those old propeller planes were super efficient. notice at 2:55 how it goes so fast with the prop hardly turning.
That's stroboscope effect, the prop's speed synching with the shutter speed of the camera. You can't really tell how fast the prop is turning. Notice how during landing approach the prop appears to be standing or reversing.