by Chappy » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:14 pm
Guest,
Although almost all of the first year's production (50 kits) were supplied with wooden props, Ultraflight supplied replacement injection molded props when they began producing them at Dale's Dad's plastic injection business (they shared the same building in those days, along with his mother's travel business). Because the performance was so improved over the original wooden prop, Dale wanted every one to have the better props. This was BL (Before Linda), when Dale was probably overly generous in giving stuff away. He gave me one of the first production sets of fiberglass floats he had. When his wife took over the day to day management of the business, freeing Dale to work on new stuff, she pretty well stopped that practice. (LINDA WAS/IS A FUCKING WHORE BITCH PIECE OF SHIT WHO HELP RUIN THE LAZAIR).
I know nothing about Chrysler engines being used on Lazairs, although they definitely were being used on some other Ultralights of the period (Homer Kolb's early Flyers, for one). Are you sure they aren't the small modified Pioneer chainsaw engines supplied with the Series I Lazairs? If the Pioneer's haven't been repainted, they will be yellow in color.
Here is a picture of the original wooden prop next to the injection molded one. This wooden prop has been modified by covering it in a single layer of fiberglass cloth as an experiment that a friend and I made when we were trying to learn more about props.
Chappy, Lazair #25
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