See... I'm not the ONLY old fart who does this.

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Gump

DOH!

Is it just me or did he finally shut off the motor at 3:14 into the video and a minute of so after the "safe "landing.?

I believe emergency procedure is . master OFF..... Fuel OFF.... Doors open and ajar..... Tighten the crap out of the seat belts too.

Oh yeah... this helps too..

Ben.

Intresting video what happened to how they lost the prop? Didn't Loosing prop adversly effecting weight and balance ?

182 STOL driver wrote:Intresting video what happened to how they lost the prop? Didn't Loosing prop adversly effecting weight and balance ?

Ya know Bill, The more I look at the pics between 3:55 and 4:10 the whole thing looks rigged.... In every case I have seen a prop come loose in a tractor set up and the prop leaves the plane while under power it "pulls" away from the plane and dissappears into the wild blue yonder. In a pusher set up it will try to eat into the rear of the fuselage and then depart the area.... This plane looks like it had some sort of ground damage, and then they removed the prop and staged the scene.... Several things strike me as odd...
1- During the video while the motor was driving the plane I see no signs of any vibration, in the panel, or side windows or any where else. If the prop bolts were coming loose it would pick up a shake and then a severe vibration just before the prop got spit off... Also... at 4:06 if you freeze the video you can clearly see the crank flange is still there and the drive lugs are visable too... I don't recall but in this airframe it looks like a 4 -5" prop spacer would have been needed as most planes have the crank flange about even with the front of the cowling,, not recessed back like that one.... Please correct me if I am wrong about that.....

Ben.