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<\/a><\/p>\nAs you can see from this next shot, I had a few attempts. \u00a0 Apologies for the bad photos; as soon as you jam the iPhone up close to something in low light, its autofocus loses its mind.<\/p>\n
2.5 hours.<\/p>\n
This is pretty much what I did last weekend. \u00a0I was only able to get up to the airport for a couple of hours, and in that time, I had to figure out how to safety-wire the prop. \u00a0 This is a necessary step. \u00a0The propeller needs to stay on, and it needs to stay on for the entire duration of the flight. \u00a0The way this is accomplished is with the ubiquitous safety wire. \u00a0 The Hartzell manual calls for .032 safety wire on these six bolts and fortunately I’ve got half a spool of it still in my kit.<\/p>\n
I lost count of the number of runs I took at this, but finally I got it right. \u00a0 There are a couple of interesting parts to this. \u00a0First thing is to get the prop torqued to 65 ft\/lbs. \u00a0 Then you have to back the nuts off enough to get the safety wire through the spring pin. \u00a0Then you have to guess the length of wire you need after all the twisting happens. \u00a0 They’re supposed to be wired in pairs, with the wiring preventing the nuts from backing out and causing really bad things to happen, like the prop departing the airplane and leaving you with a not-so-gliding glider.<\/p>\n