A Prop in Six Days

摘要

The business: Culver Props specializes in making custom, fixed-pitch, two-blade, wood propellers. Lewis makes about 120 propellers a year. The path: Lewis was taught by her grandfather, a mechanical engineer. "I worked here while I was going to college," says Lewis, "doing the things nobody else wanted to do, like answering the phones. My grandpa taught me everything as we went along, and I've been doing this now for 10 years. He passed away in 2016, so I continued the business-me and my 84-year-old granny, who comes in every day and helps me. We specialize in the larger-diameter propellers, a lot of World War I replicas. That's our sweet spot."