Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Bong40 on October 07, 2015, 03:52:29 PM
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Quick little cool Video...Pilot is okay Plane is in one piece.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e51_1444234549
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Great job, or fantastic luck in avoiding pranging the prop!
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Great job, or fantastic luck in avoiding pranging the prop!
Prop looked pranged to me.
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Prop looked pranged to me.
Yeah, I thought the prop looked a little curved on at least one end.
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The prop was hit.
Wonder what the issue was? He obviously knew he had a problem since he asked for the crash equipment to stand by.
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A wild guess would be something with landing gear or brakes.
Edit: look close at the touchdown, right wheel is wobbling...
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Anybody else notice the A6M in the background? :airplane:
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Happens to me all the time, but this guy does a better job of bringing it it.
:salute
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Wouldn't the engine have to be checked after a prop incident like that ?
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Wouldn't the engine have to be checked after a prop incident like that ?
Maybe. I'll bet the engine was at idle, it didn't stop the prop, probably a reasonable light hit on the engine components. The B-17 got away one day on takeoff when the tailwheel lock failed (I wasn't flying it) and they hit one of those runway/taxiway signs made of metal and plastic. Cleaved the sign, left a small mark on the prop. With the FAA looking on our mechanic checked the crank/prop shaft to see if it had been bent and the aircraft of ok to fly.
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looked like there was no air pressure in tire when weight was applied... :headscratch:
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Anybody else notice the A6M in the background? :airplane:
Yes.
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Wouldn't the engine have to be checked after a prop incident like that ?
In US civil aviation it would be; any sudden stoppage the crankshaft has to be dye pen/magnaflux inspected, propellor flange runout checked, that kinda thing.
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Anybody else notice the A6M in the background? :airplane:
I watched more of that than the Hurri
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In US civil aviation it would be; any sudden stoppage the crankshaft has to be dye pen/magnaflux inspected, propellor flange runout checked, that kinda thing.
Is there an FAR, Service Bulletin, etc. to that effect?
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Nevermind, found the info.
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Looked like a welded brake.
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That tire was flat before landing and the resultant "extra braking" from the flat tire that was likely binding before it departed caused the nose over.
I'm taking a stab that the pilot heard the tire let go during flight and declared an emergency knowing that the big boom likely meant something was very wrong.
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Looks so yes, it is clearly shown on touchdown that something is wrong with the right tyre and that it is flat. Pilot did a good job, very smooth touchdown.
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I could be wrong but to me (looking at the closest blade to the camera) it looked like the blades were wood. Nowadays many warbirds use wooden "replicas" of the original blades because of situations like this. Wooden blades are much easier on the engine in an event of a prop strike.
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I say metal blades, the tips looks like they are bent backwards.
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I say metal blades, the tips looks like they are bent backwards.
I thought the same at first, then it looked like wood chips in the tip of the closest blade (could be artifacts in the video though). It is IMO hard to tell whether the blades are bent or broken backwards.
But as I said I could be wrong.
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In US civil aviation it would be; any sudden stoppage the crankshaft has to be dye pen/magnaflux inspected, propellor flange runout checked, that kinda thing.
There was not a sudden stoppage. It was a light ground strike. Now considering whose aircraft it is, it's very likely it will go through an inspection.