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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: bob whitney on April 14, 2015, 08:52:09 AM
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After hearing about an engine coming loose from an engine stand a couple of weeks ago and sending the person to the hospital for stitch's got me thinking ( this is the 2nd person i know of that has been hurt from an engine coming loose) . With the newer bigger engines we are now running ,maybe our test stands need to have a safty cable added like they use on combat engines.wouldnt take long and sure would up the safty factor . i had an engine come loose when i was a teen ager ,i had just stepped out of the way, .it bounced off 3 walls before it came to a stop.
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I had a class II carrier engine on the stand I had just cleaned up after many flights. Fired it up and stepped behind the engine to throttle up. Just as I was ready to tach it the engine came loose and was gone before I could throttle back. Seems it threw half the prop. Only Rev Up prop I ever had that lost a blade, other than on landings.