He needs a starter

[models916]

Wonder how often he needs to hand start this thing.

[Phil Reed]

Not sure I'm that brave!!!

My father had an early 40's Aercoupe and it's wing number was NC87156. Pretty close to this one!!

[oldskydog]

Naw, piece of cake. We used to have to do it all the time on the C-130.
Sometimes the prop would just lay down on the job.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :bang :bang :bang
:rofl

[rstreet]

Cecil:: Damn you did a great job of flying after the "separation" of the prop. You're definitely the man in my book!!!:bow :bow :bow :bow :bow
Robert
P.S. Did you lose #3?

[oldskydog]

Cecil:: Damn you did a great job of flying after the "separation" of the prop. You're definitely the man in my book!!!:bow :bow :bow :bow :bow
Robert
P.S. Did you lose #3?

Nooooooo! Not me!:nono1: I don't want credit for this one. My career would have probably been over if I had done this. It didn't come off in flight. They were landing on a little island in the middle of the Bering Sea with a 5000 lb fuel truck in the back and had a little difficulty with directional control after landing. The prop separated after the right wingtip and prop hit the ground. I wonder if the 50 knot crosswind had anything to do with it?:doh
:takethat

[Dick MacKenzie]

That's what happens when you give flying machines to the Coast Guard.
:rofl :rofl :rofl

[tripowerguy]

Speaking of flying machines, reminds me of a incendent 21 years ago. A friend had bought a used ultralight and several of us went out to watch him fly it for the first time. When we were putting it together there were a few nuts and bolts plus the eye bolt that holds all the cables together above the wing missing. He went to the hardware store and bought what we needed and we put it together. He hadn't told his wife what he had bought but had told her to come to the field he had a suprise for her. She was due to arrive at 2:00 and he wanted to be in the air when she arrived. He fired it up as she was driving in and he took off and got about 25 feet off the ground and the eye bolt staightened out and the whole thing collapsed and fell to the ground with his wife watching in horror. It knocked the wind out of him and broke a finger but that was all the damage it did to him. I don't think he ever tried to fly again, at least not while I knew him.:rofl :rofl Roy

[oldskydog]

Good thing he only bought a grade 2 bolt. If he had put a grade 5 bolt in he might have gotten high enough to kill himself when it straightened out.:doh