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