Remember The Q-Tip Prop?

No, not the little stick with cotton tufts at the ends but Hartzell’s Q-Tip Prop, developed in the 1970s ostensibly to reduce tip noise and retrofitted to a small population of light singles and twins. Distinguished by tips that were curled — or bent — aft in the fashion of a Whitcomb Device ( i.e...

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