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Old 09-20-2015, 07:22 PM
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It would seem that Roy found a way to disable his ankle bracelet.
At least the cops didn't come to my door. However, I may need to speak with him about the prop he put on my P-40.
On the 6th flight today on her first time out of the house, the P-40 met it's demise.
I was making a high speed pass from south to north and had just passed midfield at about 20' when there was a strange noise from the plane, then it started shaking violently and in less than milliseconds the engine and firewall structure left the airframe and the right wing simultaneously lost the panel from the aileron out.
Once all this extra structure was released from the plane the rest of it carried northbound for about another 50 yards.
The line of debris started with the engine/firewall, then further north the right wing panel, then still further north the rest of the plane.
I am sure that if I had any way to find it, that somewhere around midfield is the outer portion of an APC 14x13N blade that separated from the prob about 1/2" outboard of the spinner. This caused a vibration that caused the rest of the mayhem.
Anyways, here's a few pics.





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