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Old July 18th 06, 05:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default Starship prop blade

The alloys used to forge prop blades don't cast well. I
thought that the Starship used composite blades anyway.



"Kingfish" wrote in message
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| John T wrote:
| Another though was to melt it down and cast some parts
for my homebuilt
| project.
|
| That's probably your best bet, as if it's not
yellow-tagged it's
| worthless to a Starship operator. Then again, ISTR Beech
had bought
| them all back a few years ago as they didn't want to
support the fleet;
| I don't know if any are still flying.
|