I am an advocate of hand propping. Those batteries are heavy.? Two days ago I saw a guy hand prop his aircraft with the right wheel chocked only. The engine started on the first pull, the engine revved high, the tail came off the ground. As he maneuvered toward the plane to lower the throttle, the plane pivoted on the chock and started to spin. ?As the plane turned, the spinning propeller chased him away from the plane. The tail raised higher until the blade hit the ground. The prop shattered like shrapnel. ?Luckily no one was hurt physically.?
Proper safety precautions should be followed.? Joe Nunley Baker Florida Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Prata via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> </div><div>Date:01/30/2015 2:13 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: krnet at list.krnet.org </div><div>Subject: Re: KR> ADS-B and homebuilts </div><div> </div> Very good responses. Hand propping doesnt scare me and I like the simplicity of a KR1 with no electrics, just a handheld radio. I didnt even think about the alternator/generator being what constituted an electric system in an airplane. I dont mind a starter, battery, and maybe a solar panel or wind generator. And now I can send that Coffman Starter system back to ebay. :/ http://youtu.be/IACjOvyx5hs BTW, a REAL experimental aircraft was built for the movie Flight of the Phoenix, a TallMantz P-1 Experimental, and it crashed on a low pass when the skid touched a sand mound, killing famous Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz. That's why the plane in the final scenes is so different, it was a modded North American O47B. _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
