It'll be interesting to find out exactly what happened. Bleeding has to be pretty bad to leave that noticable a trail in the dirt. Hope whoever it was wasn't alone. I totally agree with Piper Chuck. My feeling is, there is a discrete boundary that the prop stays within, and anybody who knows anything about planes at all knows where that boundary is. If you go inside that boundary, you ain't paying attention.

As far as it goes, Agexpert, I guess it IS "the burned hand knows best about fire", but to suggest that is the best way to learn about things is to suggest playing in the highway to learn about getting run over, or grabbing a running chainsaw bar to learn how sharp the chain is. Anybody that stupid has no business around running r/c engines; before you get your panties in a wad, in no way am I suggesting that you are stupid. My comments don't refer to you. There are things in life that should be obvious to anybody; but if there is a total absence of understanding about the most elementary rules of physics, then maybe another hobby, like reading, is in order.

It continually amazes me that it seems like a badge of honor, how some people brag about sticking a finger in a spinning prop. God help me, if I ever do it, I'm gonna hide 'til the wound heals, and then tattoo "stupid" on my own forehead.


A young boy watches a blacksmith making horseshoes. The smith finishes the shoe, quenches it to temper it and sets it aside to cool. The little boy wanders over, and with the blacksmith watching out of the corner of his eye, the boy picks up the hot shoe, and immediately drops it on the ground. "didja burn yer hand, boy?", says the blacksmith.

"Nope", says the boy, "It just don't take me long to look at a horseshoe."