Has the new LAEV prop flown yet?

Robin

Not yet but the committee has finished 99.9% of

the design.

It will be severely tested on a rocking stand to

introduce

severe gyro and turbulence loads before it is

flown.

Paul Lamar

Yvon Cournoyer wrote:

Great Paul, but... what is LAEV..?? Yvon.

I think it stands for LAmar Electrical Variable.

I think Butch is fond of naming things after me. That

way people will come

after me if they don't work and not him :-)

It should be called the ACRE NL prop as several

members on here had a hand in

the
design and testing. Perry Mick will make the test

blades and Bill Freeman did

the blade design. Butch took some of mine and Vance's

ideas and ran with them

to design and build the hub. Tracy Crook will help

with the ground test stand

testing.

Paul Lamar

Yvon;

What Paul is not saying is.........."He was the PIONEER
responsible for the IDEA (Matrix) of a relatively
CLEVER, SIMPLE way of making a CS Prop, AFFORD-ABLY".
THAT, is what really started the snow ball
rolling........Vance then jumped in and threw in BALLS,
( No, not HIS balls) :-), but balls like in: "ball
bearings", which were applied BRILLIANTLY.....In the
interim, Bill was arduously designing the PERFECT hi-tec
blade for it. He ran LOTS and LOTS of time consuming
iterations, so much so that he must have been sleeping
with his laptop :-). I have to admit that I'm impressed
with the numbers and the physical appearance of the end
result. A real BEAUTY......Perry, with funds from some
subscribers, volunteered to fabricate the prototype
blades. He is very close to being the man of the hour as
we speak...Tracy generously agreed to let "Trouble Maker
Lamar" :-), use his facility and engine test stand to
D&R (Destroy & Replace) :-), the prototype........So
where do I fit in the picture?.......Well it went like
this:
John Moran had generously volunteered to make the
prototype in his machine shop and actually made some
parts, but unfortunately for us, fortunate for him, his
shop got busy and busier and the project was back-burned
(put on hold), so since I had been following this
closely, and was aware of great ideas being dip six-
ed/canned due to lack of funds, time and expertise and
having just finished the Wiggins coupling, I decided to
take on this challenge, and have successfully come up
with a few tricks of my own. ;-).

This is why I appropriately an deservedly named it the
LAEV Pitch Prop.....which stands for "Lamar Affordable
Experimental Variable" Pitch Prop.

That's it in a coconut shell..........La Verdad!

                              Butch

 
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