X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.100] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.13) with SMTP id 3542382 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:30:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 53778 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2009 17:30:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pZWpVC1HnsMSkRSTxbEM2AuqQUyCsWDOBhqYvJ+hi82Hh51S0qN7F+C9kvcSbio2BLzWJXDrqLU8wxBKZ+8cvgePMz750aWvf/coi77P0dKsQWqSkvM5TDYgMJ3Y2oZw7ztOgMUUoQA5eq6F/u0NOyZYR6Z5lTNmS7+Ziolk6Ng= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.69?) (sladerj@75.21.26.238 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2009 17:30:10 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: tx.rh40VM1nlz6FZ5ruFgNueGlAW4Xu7Tv5hXTp1opwmBoMIE46UndctO0VvZJBBS8vgh1t9wE8oyhsyyRhQALLAwLXcmyos08.UFoKf1Zgl12i20s0fN2ZTSu_4UCVYmEL8VzpeLAJ536olWSdSa0ySdVHJyehgFuxiItt45dz.Qi67w4PGQKtLNi0X X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <49B6A398.1040201@sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:30:00 -0400 From: John Slade Reply-To: sladerj@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Ground Testing References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The IVO electric in-flight adjustable costs around $2350. I'm very pleased with mine. My "spare" is a $2700 fixed pitch wood prop thats a piece of art, but doesn't work anywhere near as well. John Tracy Crook wrote: A variable pitch prop would be nice to get the best of both worlds but it's an expensive option and $10,000 buys a lot of gas.