Continental drift and propeller load testing

In addition to working on the instrumentation, in his garage, Rick is putting the finishing touches on the propeller. The blades are clamped by their spars and are fully cantilevered from these brackets.

Rick's garage is also more like 'toy central', with flexible flying craft of all sorts along with a collection of harnesses etc. -- too much stuff in too small of a space.

There is a shelf (too) full of stuff that resides over the area where the prop blades currently are being finished.



Here is the shelf after it decided to 'drift' rather dramatically.

Here is the stuff that was on the drifting shelf as it bounced off the prop blades.

Here is the very minor dent in the blade from the drifting shelf. Load test passed.