REFLECTOR: FOD

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Kent, 

?I think that is the law of pre-disastering :) If you didn't have the extra blades, & did the exact same thing you would have picked up fod damage. 

I was concerned enough about my Velocity & FOD that I bought a sweeper for the airpark. I figure if I at least keep my taxi route clean, it will help us all out. 

I was thinking about putting a small mud flap on the wheel pants that sits very close to the back of the tires. If it was the same width as the tires it shouldn't add any drag, but just might knock down a pebble or two. 

Kurt Winker


-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Murley <im at theaerodro.me>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 11:43 am
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FOD


Recent good luck:?
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I got to see someone taxi my XLRG over sandy ground before I bought it and the 3 blade MT prop sucked in small sand from 8 feet to each side, forming a two inch wide funnel cloud from the lowest sweep of the blades straight down to the ground.?
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For a while I got a few nicks in my blades, one an inch in from the trailing edge through which I could see light. Off to Deland, then Germany they went. The second time that happened I bought an extra set of blades so as to not lose ten weeks of good weather.?
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Since then I always roll my plane to a clear spot for engine start and always taxi around any visible FOD. No nicks in several years, even with no speed brake or wheel pants. The extra blades are still in the crate.?
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Kent Murley?
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On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Douglas Holub wrote:?
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> Thanks a lot, Andy. I got one big gouge on the leading edge a month > ago, as big as your little finger and it even gouged the maple a > little bit.?
> And I guess I'd better start flying with the wheel pants to protect > the prop.?
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> Doug?
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