john hawkins wrote:
Besides beauty there is another benefit to a wood propellor.
No sudden stoppages. The prop just turns into splinters.
Don't ask 
If such a situation were ever to occur cough where a wooden prop was
aaah converted to components, via lets say, nosing over too far and
encountering dirt, would you still require an engine rebuild ?
Purely hypothetical - of course.
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Cheers
Dave Kearton