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Bob I lost the prop on my 46 ERCOUPE in Jan. 1996, see NTSB accident report number BFO96LA038 We landed in a snow covered field and the nose wheel collapsed and we did minor damage to the plane. We recovered the prop in deep snow one week later and we are still flying the Coupe with this prop after it had been checked at the Sensnich factory in Lancaster PA. There was no stability problems to speak of, but the hot oil started to gush out and cover the windscreen. I saw the tach go around the dial three or four times before I could shut the engine down. It sounded like a gas turbine and when we tore the engine down we found that the piston rods were stretched 1/8 of an inch and the rest of the engine was trash. It had a happy ending because the shop who overhauled our crankshaft bought us a new engine and it's still flying. Regards, Ken Lennox N87424 ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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