REFLECTOR: Houston Area Velocity

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It was a "Props Inc." Propeller on Paul Barfnecht's  Velo. He did throw one 
blade (in Texas) on his Jabaru powered bird and after  inspecting the other 
two blades, they were just about to break out of the hub  also. Props Inc 
is a ground adjustable blade and in my opinion should never be  placed on a 
airplane period!! The design of attaching the blade to the hub is  just 
awful. Don't even put it on the bottom of your lawn mower unless you just  want 
to ride around without cutting grass. I posted a warning to this effect  back 
when it happened to Paul and it would be terrible if the recent  accident 
was from the same cause. Paul had purchased the prop for the  ground 
adjustability and the PRICE. The cost amount looks good on paper but does  not mean 
a lot if your not around to enjoy your savings?? We are all making  Life and 
Death decisions when we are building Don't let $$$ be your deciding  factor 
about safety issues.
 
        Ken 
 
 
In a message dated 5/13/2009 10:19:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
velocity_pilot at verizon.net writes:

 
Not saying that that  was the problem, and we should not speculate, but a 
couple of years ago, I  helped a velocity guy out who lost a blade from his 
ground adjustable prop  over middle Texas- I think Kevin knew him- can’t 
remember his name at the  moment- but he lost the entire blade, and barely got 
down.  He showed it  to me, it was poorly designed- held in basically with 
epoxy  and some  pins that only weakened the root structure.  It was not an 
Ivo- it was  props inc or something like that.  Anyway, sad to loose the 
Houston pilot whatever  the cause….. 
 
  
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From:  reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On 
Behalf Of David Staten
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:09  PM
To: Velocity Aircraft  Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Houston Area  Velocity