Originally posted by Jaguar
I'd lose that brick method of restraint too, if I were you. Why not use two pipes driven into the ground, or stand behind the wing,straddling the fuse-letting horiz stab rest on back of legs...or tether tail with rope tie-down
Yeah well, after I ran inside to make sure the prop didn't sever my jugular, I reattached the prop and started the engine again. The manual that came with the engine had a section on breaking-in the engine. After adjusting the mixture, the manual said to bring the engine to full throttle. When it hit full throttle, the plane jumped the bricks. I was sitting beside the plane, between the wing and h-stab, so it was easy to grab the plane.
The next day I went to Lowes and bought some PVC pipe to hold the plane in place when testing the engine. After almost getting chopped up into fish bait, the plane jumping the bricks seemed like a minor problem :stupid: