T-6 landing on Hwy 41 at OSH

RST Engineering wrote:
Unmitigated bushwa. Most aircraft engines (fixed pitch & CS prop)
will stop the prop at normal glide speeds.

Never had an engine failure, have you?

Jim

Also just shutting off the engine doesn't stop the prop from
windmilling. To do that you have to have a prop that fully feathers
and even then they don't always stop fully.

As a matter of fact I have. In a 172 and the prop continued to spin until I
was on the ground and didn't stop until the AS was about 45.

RST Engineering wrote:
Unmitigated bushwa. Most aircraft engines (fixed pitch & CS prop) will stop
the prop at normal glide speeds.

Never had an engine failure, have you?

I have, and the prop kept spinning. I didn't know the engine was dead
until I went to add power and got nothing.


-m
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Mark T. Dame wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:
Unmitigated bushwa. Most aircraft engines (fixed pitch & CS prop)
will stop the prop at normal glide speeds.

Never had an engine failure, have you?

I have, and the prop kept spinning. I didn't know the engine was dead
until I went to add power and got nothing.


-m

That makes it 3 to 1. You might try adding oil now and then.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Unmitigated bushwa. Most aircraft engines (fixed pitch & CS prop) will
stop the prop at normal glide speeds.

Never had an engine failure, have you?


Many. Never had a prop stop until after I landed. Even the Aeronca Chief
wouldn't do that.

Al G

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Every chance, Bob. Back in the '60s when I did my primary training it was
quite common for the instructor to pull the plug over the airport and have
you "make" the field. The prop on the 0-200 150 stopped at best glide
speed.

In the O-300 172 I took into the bridge at Grass Valley with dual mag
failure, the prop stopped at best glide speed.

In the O-470 182 I put onto the dragstrip at Hanna with a blown jug, the
prop stopped at best glide speed.

Sorry, them's the facts.

Jim

My experience is different. When I did prop stopped glide testing in the
RV-6, I had to go well under 60 knots indicated to get the prop to stop. And
I fly behind a wood prop which has very little inertia. A metal prop would
have probably windmilled at an even slower speed.

KB