Stan.Tew(at)revenue.alaba Guest
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: blade departure |
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I know of one occurrence of a GSC blade breaking just like the one in the photos. It happened to my friend Ronnie who was flying an Avid which is a Kitfox cousin. The difference in the story is that my friend was at altitude and speed when his failed. The vibration caused by the imbalance due to lack of the prop blade quickly tore the entire gearbox off the Rotax 503 engine. It also broke completely 2 of the engine mount bolts and badly bent the other 2. These 2 bolts are what saved his life because the engine did not depart the aircraft. This allowed the CG to remain somewhat intact and enabled him to land the plane. After some searching of the ground where it happened we recovered the gearbox with the 2 remaining blades but never found the broken end.
As we all know “A nose heavy plane is dangerous; a tail heavy plane is deadly”.
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