Toasted my engine

wrote:

Time frame was around 1989.

That's about when I read about it. Probably in Atlantic Flyer.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

john smith wrote:

New Cessna 152's came from the factory with a Q-tip prop in 1974? 75?
This was pre-internet, so the reporting came from the regular news
sources at the time (aviation periodicals, regional newspapers, etc).
It is difficult to cite a specific source from twenty-five to thirty
years ago without a clipping in front of me.
If you haven't been around that long, don't bitch about it.
You cannot GOOGLE everything. Not everything is available on the web,
and alot of what is is of dubious credibility. :-))

Dubious credibility, indeed! Cessna didn't start making the 152 until
1978, and they never, ever delivered a 150 or 152 with a Q-tip prop.

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

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Scott Skylane wrote:

john smith wrote:

New Cessna 152's came from the factory with a Q-tip prop in 1974? 75?
This was pre-internet, so the reporting came from the regular news
sources at the time (aviation periodicals, regional newspapers, etc).
It is difficult to cite a specific source from twenty-five to thirty
years ago without a clipping in front of me.
If you haven't been around that long, don't bitch about it.
You cannot GOOGLE everything. Not everything is available on the web,
and alot of what is is of dubious credibility. :-))

Dubious credibility, indeed! Cessna didn't start making the 152 until
1978, and they never, ever delivered a 150 or 152 with a Q-tip prop.

Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature for
that particular model year.

john smith wrote:




Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.

A Q tip is a constant speed prop.

I have never ever seen a 152 with a Q-tip.

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Scott Skylane wrote:

john smith wrote:

New Cessna 152's came from the factory with a Q-tip prop in 1974? 75?
This was pre-internet, so the reporting came from the regular news
sources at the time (aviation periodicals, regional newspapers, etc).
It is difficult to cite a specific source from twenty-five to thirty
years ago without a clipping in front of me.
If you haven't been around that long, don't bitch about it.
You cannot GOOGLE everything. Not everything is available on the web,
and alot of what is is of dubious credibility. :-))

Dubious credibility, indeed! Cessna didn't start making the 152 until
1978, and they never, ever delivered a 150 or 152 with a Q-tip prop.

Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature for
that particular model year.

Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.

A Q tip is a constant speed prop.

Not all of them.

john smith wrote:



Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature for
that particular model year.

Hmmm, not to belabor the point, But the Cessna parts catalog does not
show any prop other than the standard McCauley "gull wing" design, the
TCDS does not list any other prop than the standard McCauley, there are
no STC listings for a Q-tip installation on a 152, and in my 24 years in
the business, I've never seen nor heard of any such installation. I
suspect your memory may be failing you on this point. Perhaps someone
did a one-off field approval, but as NEWPS indicated, I don't know of
any fixed pitch Q-tips to begin with.

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

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Scott Skylane wrote:

john smith wrote:



Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature for
that particular model year.

Hmmm, not to belabor the point, But the Cessna parts catalog does not
show any prop other than the standard McCauley "gull wing" design, the
TCDS does not list any other prop than the standard McCauley, there are
no STC listings for a Q-tip installation on a 152, and in my 24 years in
the business, I've never seen nor heard of any such installation. I
suspect your memory may be failing you on this point. Perhaps someone
did a one-off field approval, but as NEWPS indicated, I don't know of
any fixed pitch Q-tips to begin with.

What is the Gull Wing prop?
The prop I saw had the tip bent back maybe 1/4"-3/8".

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Scott Skylane wrote:

john smith wrote:



Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a
Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country
strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature
for
that particular model year.

Hmmm, not to belabor the point, But the Cessna parts catalog does not
show any prop other than the standard McCauley "gull wing" design, the
TCDS does not list any other prop than the standard McCauley, there are
no STC listings for a Q-tip installation on a 152, and in my 24 years in
the business, I've never seen nor heard of any such installation. I
suspect your memory may be failing you on this point. Perhaps someone
did a one-off field approval, but as NEWPS indicated, I don't know of
any fixed pitch Q-tips to begin with.

What is the Gull Wing prop?
The prop I saw had the tip bent back maybe 1/4"-3/8".

Really bad landing perhaps?

john smith wrote:
In article ,
Scott Skylane wrote:


john smith wrote:



Hence my question marks. And, yes they did deliver the 152 with a Q-tip
prop.
Cessna required flight schools in their Cessna Pilot Center program to
purchase a new aircraft every year. I hung out at a small country strip
from 1973 until 1979, so I remembered it was in that time frame.
The owner of the airport showed all of us the prop as a new feature for
that particular model year.

Hmmm, not to belabor the point, But the Cessna parts catalog does not
show any prop other than the standard McCauley "gull wing" design, the
TCDS does not list any other prop than the standard McCauley, there are
no STC listings for a Q-tip installation on a 152, and in my 24 years in
the business, I've never seen nor heard of any such installation. I
suspect your memory may be failing you on this point. Perhaps someone
did a one-off field approval, but as NEWPS indicated, I don't know of
any fixed pitch Q-tips to begin with.


What is the Gull Wing prop?
The prop I saw had the tip bent back maybe 1/4"-3/8".

Hartzell built Q-tip props. McCauley never did. Hartzell does not make
fixed-pitched props. Cessna 152s were delivered with fixed-pitch props.
Therefore stock Cessna 152s are extremely unlikely to have
Hartzell constant-speed Q-tip props bolted to the front of their 115-HP
Lycoming engines. They would not fit, to begin with. And they would
weigh too much.