TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
Didn't see this already posted. A C172 loses the ENTIRE prop with four people aboard. Makes a successful emergency landing on a road.
Having a couple of people in the back seat was lucky for them, as losing the prop (heavy, way out front) can significantly change the weight & balance... I'll have to pull out my charts and run some calculations to see if they'd be out of CG with the prop missing and only front-seaters on board.
I wouldn't be worried about the CG impacts of a 172's fixed-pitch prop getting thrown off. This would be a bigger deal on a 182, 206, etc. with a constant-speed prop.
But that is never fun!
Having a couple of people in the back seat was lucky for them, as losing the prop (heavy, way out front) can significantly change the weight & balance... I'll have to pull out my charts and run some calculations to see if they'd be out of CG with the prop missing and only front-seaters on board.
Actually the CG would run aft. having weight in the back makes it worse.
Losing the prop sucks but at least it wasn't one of those "lose a blade and rip the engine off" events - that's probably unsurvivable.
Assuming you're cruising around at a normal power setting and a blade departs the airplane, how long do you think you have to go for the mags before the engine is ripped off the mounts? Or is it going to go bye bye no matter what you do?
Assuming you're cruising around at a normal power setting and a blade departs the airplane, how long do you think you have to go for the mags before the engine is ripped off the mounts? Or is it going to go bye bye no matter what you do?
Assuming you're cruising around at a normal power setting and a blade departs the airplane, how long do you think you have to go for the mags before the engine is ripped off the mounts? Or is it going to go bye bye no matter what you do?
So if you own a Mexican registered airplane in Mexico, can you just fly it till it breaks or when you feel like fixing it, or do you still have annuals like in the USA?
Assuming you're cruising around at a normal power setting and a blade departs the airplane, how long do you think you have to go for the mags before the engine is ripped off the mounts? Or is it going to go bye bye no matter what you do?
My question is: how the HECK did this happen??
One of our Fairchild operators had a blade leave the Ranger powered 24, he flew it 25 minutes back to his home field and made a safe landing.
the mount for the ranger is built into the fuselage forward section and acted like a roll cage for the ranger and it held the engine in the aircraft.
F-24s are tough old bird.
If you lost the entire prop, hub and all, my FIRST guess would be a failed (sheared) crankshaft.
Or the safety wire broke and the bolts have worked their way out.
Seen both happen.
Wow. Six bolts (on the installs I've seen, I'm sure that varies)... they are safety wired in pairs.... I have a hard time picturing this scenario. I'd think the bolts would fail due to becoming loose and picking up the prop's movement as a tension force, before they'd all work themselves loose at once. How often have you seen this? I suppose it's impossible after the fact to know if only one wire broke pre-prop-escape, or if the wires weren't there to begin with.
Assuming you're cruising around at a normal power setting and a blade departs the airplane, how long do you think you have to go for the mags before the engine is ripped off the mounts? Or is it going to go bye bye no matter what you do?
Killing the mags will stop an engine much more quickly than pulling the mixture on most airplanes although we're talking about something like half a second vs 2-3 seconds.Out of curiosity, is pulling the mixture a suitable equivalent to cutting off the mags in this case? (Thinking about being in the right seat, i could pull the mixture faster than reaching the mags or getting the left seater to get the mags)