I watched a guy here at the airpark taxi his 182 straight into a chuck hole...I have never heard anything like that
crunching and grinding and chunk chunk chunk as the engine died under the load. He knew right where the hole was and was
trying to miss it with his mains...ended up with a new prop and engine...


wrote in message oups.com...
Anyone else here ever experience one? How did yours happen?
Mine have been ag related and hit ground, rocks, birds, and ?
Ever throw off a piece of the prop blade? I lost a piece during
climbout of a jungle strip in the Amazon in a C-185. Managed to dead
stick it back without any further damage but it took nearly two months
to get a replacement. IN the meantime, I used a field expedient and cut
off an equal amount from the other blade. We were about 200 miles from
civilization on the Rio Curaray.
Ah the fun old days....
Ol S&B