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  The Prop Story!

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THE STORY

            Upon meeting Cimtech Inc. president, Steve Kidd, I knew he was an extraordinary individual. His knowledge of modern machine technologies, combined with his energy and enthusiasm led to an incredibly generous offer for the use of his facilities and staff at Cimtech, to solve our dilemma in building an accurate test propeller—an offer that turned out to be a challenging and time-consuming project.
            My many, many thanks to Cimtech president, Steve Kidd, reverse application engineer, Dave Arena, and CNC manufacturing engineer, Rich Greer, for making this project an exciting and great success.
            We would also like to thank the Museum of Flight for making their original World Cruiser propeller available for this project and Lyle Sindlinger for milling and laminating the huge birch block.         


Karachi, India, 1924: Crews of the Boston, Chicago, New Orleans
 
Diane at the Alaska Heritage Museum with the remains of the original Seattle


View of what is left of Seattle’s propeller
   
Display at the Museum of Flight of an original World Cruiser propeller


The “old way” of measuring and developing a propeller

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The “new way,” using digital laser scanner

Attaching reflective dots for scanner
 
 
Cimtech reverse application engineer Dave Arena checks computer screen results


Going over the prop tip
 
Tip screen view

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