Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Sting Sport Woodcomp blade loss

Interesting.
One of my students just landed a trike at an airport after loosing one blade of a composite prop. In his case he put his wind breaker jacket not properly secured in the back seat and was flying to St. Pete (FL) and the jacket made an exit and went through the prop. He flew that trike on 2 blades (3-blade prop) back to Pilot Country airport for 10 minutes according to him and landed.
I was a bit pissed because what he was taught to do was to land somewhere near immediately and shut that engine down ASAP. Such unbalance causes severe vibrations. Flying back 10 minutes ...
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <brian@...> wrote:
>
> Well, it's not everyday I have something of significance to contribute
> to this site beyond the snarky remarks - but today I have something of
> interest!
> For a good brief "newsy" overview - the news report -
> http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_21450136/longmont-e\
> mergency-crews-investigate-report-plane-down
> <http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_21450136/longmont-\
> emergency-crews-investigate-report-plane-down>
> I guess if you're going to bring someone along when you are going to
> have a catastrophic failure of your prop blades, a DPE is as good as the
> next guy huh?
> So near as I can tell - and along with the partner in the plane who is
> also an A&P, the initial prop blade loss completely evacuated the mount.
> The screws and bolts are still in the mount. When the first blade left
> the mount, it must've collided with the second blade, causing the
> shearing and loss.
> I knew doing a power-off/engine loss was going to be part of my day, but
> I really thought it was going to be simulated rather than an actual.
> The FAA and NTSB are involved with the incident, so I'm sure there will
> be an issuance of a report.
> There are apparently reports on the interwebs about other Woodcomps
> being thrown, but I suppose the same type of scenario could happen on
> any prop type huh?
>




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