Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000425081935.007f9b10@mail.xtalwind.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:19:35 -0400
To: "Greig Huggins" <ghuggins@kingswest.com>, Lancair.list@olsusa.com
From: Judy <jandb@xtalwind.net>
Subject: Re: Auto conversions and constant speed props
In-Reply-To: <009401bfae43$3c48a960$1501000a@kingswest.com>
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I am not quite to buying a propeller yet but I received a lot of valuable
input from the Lakeland Air Show.  Most of it came by the aide of Marv, our
benefactor.  He told me about the IVO props and we were fortunate enough to
spend a good bit of quality time talking with the IVO guys at the show.
Neat Stuff and cheap.  And very light.  A lot of faith in structural
qualities and properties of Composite materials. Just my opinion.  Marv can
recite all the specifications. 

In discussions with Captain Mike and Jim Parish during late night coffee
and sanding on the Lancair....Mike says he doesn’t like the ideal of
bending the prop on purpose!  Jim says he saw a comparison with Warpdrive.
They hung a weight off the ends of the props.  He said the IVO tip was
hanging down quite a bit.  It made me think of a heavily bowed fishing rod.
He said the Warpdrive was straight.  

Then someone said.  The Warp was not in-flight adjustable.  And someone
else said they had seen an "add on" for the warp drive that made it
in-flight adjustable for $350 or so.  There was a chuckle followed by the
comment;  the guy who builds the warp drive was trying to figure out how to
make the prop in-flight adjustable when the other guy figured it out
first..   The other guys is selling them for around $350 to $400 in the
meantime....Isn't Experimental Aviation the greatest!

That's about all the conversation I remember because I was busy sanding out
one hell of a lot of Flox!  another story from Sun-Fun.


It looks like to me you could get into an in-flight adjustable prop for
around $2200 using new technology.  I could be spelling these name wrong
but the meat of the discussion is there are some real alternatives to
traditional adjustable props.

Bobby Pate


At 05:17 PM 4/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
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>Is there anyone online that has experience with putting a constant speed
>prop on their auto conversion?  We are in the middle of that process
>right now and could use some input from someone who has been there.
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>Thanks for any input,
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>Greig Huggins
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