And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is my understanding that there are no more wooden propellers being manufactured in this country. There is a repair shop it the WW-2 Air Museum in Colo. Springs that takes old propellers and fixes them, so they work.
John, I wouldn't be hard on him. It's likely didn't know himself. Volunteers are hard to come by. Even an 'exciting' museum which featured a restoration shop may not be able to keep volunteers coming back.
Everyone here should volunteer to a worthy cause. And more than once in a while.
When I was about 12 years old I watched the father of a friend of mine build his own plane, including the glued and clamped laminate wooden propeller. Oh how I worried about that propeller! You can't use wood(!), I thought. Turns out that it was just fine, although he would only take his own family for rides.
It is my understanding that there are no more wooden propellers being manufactured in this country. There is a repair shop it the WW-2 Air Museum in Colo. Springs that takes old propellers and fixes them, so they work.
ReplyDeleteCulver props is one of several in America
ReplyDeleteSensenich will also make wood props on order. Shown is a Sens prop.
DeleteWell, the foreman of the WW-2 Air Museum told me a fib.
DeleteI see that Hercules also makes them.
John, I wouldn't be hard on him. It's likely didn't know himself. Volunteers are hard to come by. Even an 'exciting' museum which featured a restoration shop may not be able to keep volunteers coming back.
DeleteEveryone here should volunteer to a worthy cause. And more than once in a while.
You know? Now that I think about it, it may have been metal propellers that was the topic of conversation in the museum repair shop.
DeleteFive cylinder radial on a lightweight, vintage aircraft. That can only be a Kinner. Just over 90 HP.
ReplyDeleteI want to say very early Luscombe or Stinson, but I have low confidence in that.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about 12 years old I watched the father of a friend of mine build his own plane, including the glued and clamped laminate wooden propeller. Oh how I worried about that propeller! You can't use wood(!), I thought. Turns out that it was just fine, although he would only take his own family for rides.
ReplyDeletePretty sure nobody intended it to be a marriage of art and engineering, but it is a thing of beauty.
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