Comments on: For your viewing horror

By: grounded eric

grounded eric — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:52:40 +0000

It’s enough to make a grown man cry.

By: steveH

steveH — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:13:30 +0000

That certainly makes you think about the consequences of building all-metal aircraft lightly.

By: Buck

Buck — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:25:29 +0000

It’s an aeroaccordian. You can fly 300 miles and then land and play a polka…

And Da Winner is… NOSE! By a mile…

By: xformed

xformed — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:06:19 +0000

I once was the on scene witness to what a C182 prop does to the ankle joint of a pilot that fails to: 1) shut off the mags when turning for compression/fuel mixture, and 2) fails to keep arms straight when propping his ride to take us skydivers aloft. He did manage to climb in, taxi to where we were gearing up for the first lift to ask for a hand in rectifying his situation.

Yep…dead battery was the culprit.

Luckily, the Cessna did the deed just above the joint, and didn’t manage to get all the way thru. A year later, he was back to running and was just fine…flew for us, too…All I recall of his identity is it was summer of ’72 and he was one of the two Johnson brothers.

By: GEO6

GEO6 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:46 +0000

My ’46 Vintage bugsmasher has to be hand-propped and there is a very orchestrated way to do it safely when alone. Rule 1 is keep the tail tiedown secured and parking brake on, or when not at your home airfield, tied to something immovable. I have a good long piece of rope in the baggage bag always. If you screw up everything else in the hand prop process- see rule 1.

By: Nose

Nose — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:29:42 +0000

It’s an aeroaccordian. You can fly 300 miles and then land and play a polka…