Originally Posted by
Wunwing
Maybe so they could fit it into a prop dolly for transport?
Wunwing
Ha ha, have you seen the photos? Tied down, spinner up and resting on an old tyre on the back of a flat bed.
I don't know the ATSB's protocols, but I'm inclined to think that if they documented the whole thing properly, it may have been as well to remove the bit of obvious interest instead of entrusting it to a flingwing driver to deliver safely
They'd have looked right silly if the thing had slipped its tethers and dropped flange first onto some nice hard surface this time, destroying all that nice evidence of whatever made that shaft cry enough.