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Originally Posted by daepp
I went inside one of those once at an aviation museum outside of Fort Worth. It was a marvel of mechanical engineering, with twin radial (tank?) engines, and so many drive shafts it looked rather deadly inside for the poor passengers.
Come to think of it, I wonder how would they keep the engine speeds synched?
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The engines were Corsair/Hellcat Radials.... some early US tanks used smaller radials; not those, though.
The engines drove a common gearbox so the ran the same speed.