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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Schedler, Sacramento on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 02:39 pm:

OT. This is way off our Model T subject, but I thought some of you folks that fly may enjoy this.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=401176083333530


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 02:59 pm:

That's a lot different than the spring loaded starters on the the 024 and 049 motors on somoe of the model airplanes of my younger days.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Miller, Sequim WA on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 03:38 pm:

100% alcohol? Is that engine fuel or refreshment for the pilot?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 11:26 pm:

I guess you gotta make do with what you have. I've owned 3 airplanes, all hand propped, but that method would be a dire emergency last choice.

I can see so many ways that could go horribly wrong!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 11:43 pm:

I don't see much to go wrong........except the slightest chance of a prop blade cutting the rope.
The rope was neatly wound and the truck was properly lined up so as not to pull the rope into the prop.
I think it's pretty ingenious....... :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 03:08 pm:

From my friend Chuck, the one with the 1912 Indian

"I remember cubs having a big rubber band the length of fuselage inside and you had a crank on the dash to wind/stretch it and you pushed in on crank to engage. ALSO FOR BIGGER ENGINES WE AT ONE TIME MADE A BOOT THAT SLIPPED OVER THE TIP OF A BLADE AND A LONG BUNGEE THAT WE STRETCHED AND THEN SOMEONE GAVE THE PROP A LITTLE PUSH TO GET THE BUNGEE OFF CTR. iVE HAND CRANKED MANY EVEN UP TO 650 HP."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Everett on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 03:27 pm:

Bud;

Many of our customers are aerial applicators (cropdusters); a few used to pull start 450's and even 600's on B Model AgCats. One customer in Jonesboro, AR, pulled one through and the airplane got away from him.

I have friends that work at a helicopter spraying company based in Panama City; is it still raining so much?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 06:47 pm:

Bill

its a little better - 2 days without (much) rain. Feels like a drought!

60% chance of rain every day for the next week.

I've helped hand prop an AT6, but nothing as big as 600 HP. You gotta be a little crazy to be an ag pilot!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 06:54 pm:

PS

Best story I ever heard about a cub was a cub salesman who claimed he could take off on a one acre plot.
He would pound an iron stake in the ground, tie it to 100 ft. of rope, loop the other end around a wing strut and then lead it into the cabin. He then climbed in and holding on to the rope would do his takeoff run in a circle until it began to fly, and would then release the rope, and off he went!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob from Nova Scotia on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 08:06 pm:

Is it just me or does that truck sound like it has a perkins diesel ?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 09:36 pm:

hold on guys, while I get my rubber boots on!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 11:48 pm:

By Bud Holzschuh >>>He would pound an iron stake in the ground, tie it to 100 ft. of rope, loop the other end around a wing strut and then lead it into the cabin. He then climbed in and holding on to the rope would do his takeoff run in a circle until it began to fly, and would then release the rope, and off he went!<<<

OK.....THAT made me laugh out loud.......literally! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Ohio on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 06:58 am:

I'm not sure if you guys are crop dusters or fertilizer salesmen!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By michael grady on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 11:17 am:

as a former flight instructor, I'm sitting here laughing out loud. Love the circle take off story - I may even borrow that one.

Never ruin a good story with the truth, eh?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom Miller, Mostly in Dearborn on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 12:14 pm:

I knew I remembered seeing that story somewhere years ago. Popular Mechanics even had an illustration of him taking off.

http://books.google.com/books?id=9tkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=popular+mechanics:+pipe r+cub&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0irgUceiAoTmiwKQr4GADw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Claverie on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 12:35 pm:

Thanks, Tom, for posting that!!! It took me over an hour to scroll through that magazine, and I didn't even read the whole article about the Piper Cub.

What a lot of wonderful memories that brought back!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 04:41 pm:

Airspeed is airspeed, no matter how you get it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Friday, July 12, 2013 - 08:52 pm:

Tom

Thanks for posting that link. I looked for it but couldn't find it!

I may have to quit my job as a fertilizer salesman ! ;o)


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