REFLECTOR: failed Prop over Texas (from Last Year)

[Alex Balic]

Yea- they have a few tractor installations flying now on 4cyl Lycomings-
that should be a good test for them- and they have some pushers operating on
airboats too- I think that Milton was trying to get Velocity to do some
flight testing, not sure what the outcome was of that...

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of KMis178813 at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:47 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: failed Prop over Texas (from Last Year)

 

Three times breakout force is a great test. BUT throw in the vibrations that
occur from the turbulent air around the fuselage along with low and high
pressure air over and under the wings. There is a lot of stuff going on
there. I would not fly in a Velo without them doing a vibration survey to it
on the plane, and see if the blades can withstand the beating. When one
blade departs in flight the outcome is usually not good.

    Ken

 

In a message dated 4/26/2008 4:15:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
velocity_pilot at verizon.net writes:

Ah yes, Props inc.  Reason I ask, is that I saw the Vari-Prop at SNF- looks
like a really well designed unit- constant speed- reasonable price- and they
are going to get Craig Catto to make blades for it- just wanted to make sure
that it was not the same company as the one that lost the blade- I saw the
hub on that one, blade pulled right out-just levt a bunch of spinters in
there-  the Vari prop also uses 2 cross pins, but in addition have  bolts
like MT. they said that they tested the blades to something like 3 times
breakout force with no failure- just wanted to make sure that they were not
the same folks that made that junky blade that departed that Velo.

 


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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of KMis178813 at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:59 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: failed Prop over Texas (from Last Year)

 

Props Inc.   Junk

 

In a message dated 4/26/2008 9:27:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
velocity_pilot at verizon.net writes:

 

Does anyone remember the brand of the prop that failed last year and left
the pilot stranded in Texas for a while? I thought I had that archived here,
but can't seem to find it- I remember that it was a ground adjustable unit,
lost a blade over West Texas, pilot tried a fixed Catto, but it was too much
for his Jabaru he left the plane there fro a while until he could find a new
prop...


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