[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR35.35]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 35_AIRWORTHINESS STANDARDS: PROPELLERS--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart C_Tests and Inspections

 

Sec. 35.35  Blade retention test.



    The hub and blade retention arrangement of propellers with 

detachable blades must be subjected to a centrifugal load of twice the 

maximum centrifugal force to which the propeller would be subjected 

during operations within the limitations established for the propeller. 

This may be done by either a whirl test or a static pull test.



(Secs. 313(a), 601, and 603, 72 Stat. 752, 775, 49 U.S.C. 1354(a), 1421, 

and 1423; sec. 6(c), 49 U.S.C. 1655(c))



[Amdt. 35-4, 42 FR 15047, Mar. 17, 1977]