REFLECTOR: failed Prop over Texas (from Last Year)

Sat Apr 26 21:32:06 CDT 2008

I'm not saying that it is impossible to build a blade for a Velo, It's just  
hard to get it to be safe. I heard that Hartzell tried and after checking the  
vibration, they took their Prop and went home. You don't see Hartzell on the  
back of any Velo. Do the research and be SAFE It's experimental but don't be 
the  experiment!!
      Ken

In a message dated 4/26/2008 9:49:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
velocity_pilot at verizon.net writes:

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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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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