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To: fireman15

Dad was in the Army Air Corp WW II.
He told me he’d witnessed someone walk into a propeller (C-47) on the tarmac. Ugh...


23 posted on 01/01/2023 10:09:47 AM PST by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - here to stay...,)
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To: LFOD

My wife and I live on an “airpark” (airport with houses built around it). We are aviation people. Unfortunately, we have known of many unfortunate incidents. Propellors can of course be very dangerous.

Our house is one of those built closest to the runway. Before we moved here a constant speed prop from a Bonanza came apart while it was taking off. One of the blades broke through a front window and stuck in a wall inside the house.

And who does not remember the fight in Raiders of the Last Ark where the big German got chopped up?


36 posted on 01/01/2023 11:25:15 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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