REFLECTOR:Props
Andy Millin
reflector@tvbf.org
Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:49:47 -0400
I was looking around the net at composite props again.
I found Whirlwind http://www.whirlwindpropellers.com has a prop that would
be good for the XL. I don't know that they make it in the pusher
configuration. At $12.5K for the prop and $1,275 for the governor it ain't
cheap. After hearing the maintenance and downtime woes, any option that
would be more robust than the MT sounds like it would be a better value.
Also found several references to a Quasi Constant Speed prop being
developed. Unfortunately, all of the information seems to have been posted
between 1998 and 2000. The website for Global Aircraft Corporation
(http://www.globalaircraft.net/) doesn't work anymore. The NASA SBIR site
says the prop went into production in 2001. Does anyone know anything more
about the status?
Andy
Working on the sump tank