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Old 28th Oct 2014, 21:01
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piperboy84
 
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Where is the prop?

So I am waiting for my DE to show up for my commercial checkride on Sunday and he arrives rather late, his excuse? He had a student taxi into position and hold and go to full throttle, upon reaching full RPM there is loud banging and the cowling gets all twisted, he gets out and notices there is only a six inch stub left of the prop on one side with no ground strike visible. A search of the area revealed nothing.

So here's a question for you engineering types, one side of the prop turning at 2500rpm flies off not touching the ground, what would be the distance it could travel?
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