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> From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
> Date: 2006/09/06 Wed AM 09:03:07 EDT
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: OT: Gardenhose as level
>
> Bulent Aliev wrote:
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> <snip>
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> > we heard a bang and the plane felt like we run over a rock.  
>
> <snip>
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> > I got out and noticed a slight scuff like a drag mark 3" wide  on one
> > of the Ivo blades starting about where the exhaust would be  and going
> > to the tip. The las oval piece of my shiny new exhaust was  missing.
> > Mystery solved. Ivo is a one tough prop to survive a 3" long  3" diam.
> > SS pipe going hitting the blade.
>
> <snip>
>
> > The trip was uneventful
>
>
> !!SAY WHAT?!!
>
> I'd hate to be involved in what you would call 'eventful'!!  8*)

Ernest, with our machines you have to expext anything anytime. If you come back on the ground with clean underwear, this is uneventful :)
Buly