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http://www.newswest9.com/story/23671443 ... cy-landing

Ryan

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The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. - Prov. 21:31 - Train, Practice, Trust.

Hmm just a new prop and hopefully thats it, could have been worse. Well done for the pilot to get it down and almost one piece!

Atta-boy to the pilot. The aircraft will fly again, but it is such a shame becasue they just got her back in the air.

Chappie

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Brrring. Dispersal? TWO SECTIONS SCRAMBLE!!

The prop is toast and the reduction as as well as the drive shaft and trunion bearings assy is suspect as well. Flaps and some belly damage.Not a cheap day.

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As much as it sucks to see rare and hard to replace equipment get damaged, I'm always relieved that no one was hurt.

Safe flying everyone.

Andy Scott

Report states he landed at an airport, how come he didn't put the gear down?

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Might have been a little airfield with too short of a runway. Still lotsa little 1500', 1800' grass strips around. Might've been a might short for a P-63. As long as everyone's safe the rest is all fixable.

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I pulled that field up on google. Not only is the runway also the taxiway.... it's also a road & appears to have cross streets....

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"Just a prop". Well it's been 68 years since Bell manufactured spare parts for the P-63. NOTHING is cheap on that aircraft. Dissappointing to say the least.

Ref the low fuel and/or transfer subject. Even though we had all the fancy, new-fangled systems, I have heard a few of our older helo pilots in the USCG always preach to the younger pilots to always keep a manual fuel log just in case your fuel indicating or transfer system starts to act up in the middle of a mission....especially over water. I'd be curious if the pilot went to a manual fuel log when things started to act up.

Some of those old props are harder to find than chicken lips in a blizzard. I know of a few round engine AC that are flying with modified DC3 props- but pretty sure that is going to be a non option here.

Hoping that there is a spare set of blades sitting somewhere in the CAF warehouse.

& more than a couple Hawker Hurricanes.

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Didn't Canadien built hurries have ham standard props during the war?

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I think Canadian ones did

The NTSb will investigate and post their findings. Please do not make assumptions on this forum. I'll leave the above comments for now, but any more speculation will be removed.

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