" wrote in
ups.com:

I didn't actually notice the prop was gone until we attempted to
leave the dock

I have a friend in Sumter, SC, who did something like that with his
airplane. He flew from Sumter, in the midlands of SC, to Greenville
Airport, NW corner of SC, in his little 2-cylinder Champ 2-seater with
the wooden prop.

As he came in on final at Greenville, he let off on the throttle and felt
the airplane "shudder", as he put it. He fed it a little power and flew
on into the airport thinking it had dirt in the tiny carb again, getting
off the busy runway short in such a short landing plane and taxied around
to the FBO to store it. About 8 people saw the little Champ taxi around
the corner of the building, stop then shut down its tiny 2-cylinder
engine.....at which point the entire wooden prop simply fell off forward
onto the ground, all its many bolts sheared right off! Bill left it with
the mechanic who talked the prop company out of a free replacement,
rather than all those lawsuits and lawyers and court costs.... The prop
company even paid the mechanic's bill.

Bill came home on Trailways, pretty shook up. The little ragwing would
have been destroyed if that prop had gotten off its mount in the air and
come back into the fabric wings.....not nice.

He's still got the plane with the replacement prop, last time I saw
him....It's only problem is you fly into an airport and noone rushes out
to put 8 gallons of avgas in its little tank behind the engine. He used
to like me flying with him because I wasn't afraid to prop it by
hand...no starter...no electric system! In a headwind, the Volkswagens
on the ground were beating us going West...hee hee.

Larry
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