Prop Injury

[timnilson]

Thank you guys! Luckily the only ladies I need to impress are my wife and my 1 year old daughter
My wife is not that happy about this... I could not come up with a good story to make this a 'good thing'.

[Tracks]

I had a loose nut on a folding prop last week. I throttled up my wing for takeoff, and one side let loose. It caught the back of the leg of my jeans and sliced right through. An inch to the left and I would have been sitting right beside you in the ER.

[Ian Davidson]

The trailing-edge of the Aeronaut folding props are crazy sharp. I sliced my finger (just like a paper cut) simply picking one up off my car seat last weekend!

[aeryck]

Man, looking at these prop injuries just makes me wince. I'm glad I've been lucky so far. Loctite is your friend, especially when using a counter-rotating prop configuration where one motor's rotation direction would serve to loosen the prop nut rather than tighten it.

Hope the scarring isn't too bad... and I'm glad so far I've never seen injuries involving props slicing through major arteries.

[sim_io]

I just built a hexacopter with 11" props, when I armed it for the first time with a 4S it decided to take off at full throttle, my control as on idle. It avoided me somehow and hit the wall of the house breaking all 6 props.

[Tone]

I am sorry to see this. Thank you for sharing this.
Safety lessons are all we need.

[Optical]

I did pretty much the same thing just before christmas - prop hit hand, tore two nails off, cut tendons and artery, 11 stitches and christmas having hand surgery

[Ian Davidson]

Tri-copters: Live by the sword, die by the sword

[roberto]

hope for a quick recovery Tim.

thanks for sharing because it sure makes us looks differently at props when we see pictures like that.

[airbagit13]

Holly Scheisse~!!!!!!!! Wow man, sorry to hear about that.