REFLECTOR: Vesta Prop

Bellsouth Home dugasd at bellsouth.net
Sun Feb 20 13:21:24 CST 2011


What was the aircraft number that had an incident?  I missed this one. 
Rene'

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On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:05 AM, dohayes at aol.com wrote:

> I didn't know the details of the crash at the time, but Jason was clearly stalling and acting strangely, so I accused him of being on the brink of going out of business, and asked for my money back. He denied everything, and sent me a propeller soon afterward, with free shipping. If I had known then what I know now, I probably could have gotten my money back, because it was only a down payment, and its apparent now that he was trying to avoid bad publicity.
>  
> The hub has to be partially disassembled to access the mounting bolts, and that is done by removing some of the bolts from both the front and back of the hub, though it is not apparent which ones. It turned out the propeller was wedged in the box, and not bolted, possibly in the hope that it would arrive damaged, so once I discovered that I was able to get it out without taking apart the hub. If Jason had wired the bolts that would supposedly have destroyed the actuation mechanism if they had been removed, there wouldn't have been any confusion, but that would have defeated his attempt to keep the propeller out of service.
>  
> The adhesion problems mentioned in the NTSB report don't seem to correlate with anything I've seen inside my hub, but I still need to look closer.
>  
> Good advice about being ready to fly before taxi testing.
>  
> Doug
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