Hi sport10!

Well... we bought two props for it... a PRO Zinger 18-8 and 18-6. We mounted up the 18-8 first. But, after a couple of flights that prop lost a battle with my pants. lol now We flew the 18-6 for the remainder of the day. We ran 2.5 gallons through the plane, and even though that is not fully broken in... it should be close enough to gage how satisfied we'll be with this motor.

As for the first prop... and my first RC accident... it was a close one. I turned on the receiver and tx... pushed the throttle stick to full... primed the engine... and my co-pilot shut off the receiver and checked the receiver battery, gave me the thumbs up and walked away. I pushed the throttle stick down to idle... connected the glow charger... and flipped the prop. Dern OS had been starting on the first flip every time and this was no exception.

It fired up full throttle and my left hand was feeling the stress of trying to keep the plane from pivoting into my face. As the rpms cranked up over 7000 I couldn't keep the plane from coming at me. I pushed the prop nut back with my hand... bruising my thumb and knocking my middle fingernail off (we weren't using a spinner at that point as we were experimenting with the CG). That bought me enough time to stand up... and then the plane charged into my legs. It was cold and I was wearing thick canvas pants, and also had, on a whim, put on long underwear and thick socks. The fragile Zinger was no match for my pant bottoms and the socks and long johns kept me from getting a scratch.

The bad part was that when the prop exploded it shot a chunk into my neck. I was sure it was going to be a gusher. I kept feeling my neck and looking at my fingers for blood. But, it never showed. Just scraped me up and bruised my collar bone area pretty badly (had a hard time eating and talking last night).

So, while Joey changed the prop... I CAed my finger back together and electrical taped it up... we were back in the air in about five minutes... and got 12 more flights in. :-)

Moral to the story? I fought the prop and the prop lost... but it hurt real bad. ;-)

Seriously, I figure this was my one lucky break... you can bet I'll be more methodical from now on.