REFLECTOR: FOD

Scott Derrick scott at tnstaafl.net
Mon Jun 15 16:20:08 CDT 2009


Hay Kurt,  Run that sweeper over the Grants!  We could use it!

Scott

nmflyer1 at aol.com wrote:
> 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: 
>  
> 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. 
>  
> 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. 
>  
> 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. 
>  
> Kent Murley 
>  
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Douglas Holub wrote: 
>  
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Doug 
> > 
> > 
> > - 
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