Story: Propeller found miles from crash scene

"H.P." wrote in message
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He was returning the plane to the Danbury Flight School at DXR from
Nantucket (ACK). Drawing a straight line on a map from Nantucket to
Danbury,
Madison and Killingworth are on the same line and Killingworth is 2-3
miles
closer to Danbury.

Griswold Airport (MPE) is in the same town where he went down
(Madison).Wonder how (specifically) the dislodged prop affected the
aerodynamics of the Warrior and his chances for a controllable glide.
(Student here, please be be kind!)

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An account of an aerobatic Pitts losing a prop said that the pilot used full
forward stick and the aircraft still flared with nose up just before the
pilot got it on terra firma. If he hadn't gotten it down it would have
gone into a flat spin. I remember reading about it in the nineties. Of
course, a part of the crankshaft departed with the propeller.

To me, losing a prop on a single-engine tractor aircraft means instant loss
of power, an aft CG outside of the envelope, and a life-threatening
encounter with the earth's gravitational pull.