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Well, I was not in AEROBATIC flight when the prop left, but that is an easy misunderstanding as it was during airshow waiver time. We were doing a low level non aerobatic formation display because the weather was too poor for any aerobatics. From the photos you can see that God was watching out for me.

The photo 2 shows what is left of the propeller and it tried to tear the engine off the airplane -- in a nano second. It was just a big BANG with no warning and then I could not see anything
because the canopy was covered in oil.

When the oil thinned out a little I could see the engine sticking up in front of me with no prop. I just kept the airplane gliding toward the ground (It was falling out of the sky anyway -- gravity!) and wondered what I was
going to hit. Then out of the side of the canopy I could just make out the ground looking straight down. When I could make out the runway we were performing over I decided to try the landing gear and it worked. Then it was
just keeping from stalling and waiting to contact the runway. It was a very smooth touch down and I just rolled over to the side of the runway and stopped and got out. I waved at the crowd to let the airshow announcer I was
okay and waited for the crash trucks to arrive.

We will be performing at Sun n'Fun and have a full schedule the next month. We have been graciously loaned a 210 Swift and hope to be up flying quickly in my airplane. We are looking for firewall forward right now.

See you at Nationals

Michael Kennedy