One of the better hangar stories I have heard involved an aircraft that had
just been flown and pushed back into the hangar. The mags were off and fuel
valve was in the off position. The hangar door was closed. The tires were
not chocked. As the pilot was leaving he moved the prop to the horizontal
(or vertical?) position. The pilot was standing in front of the prop. The
engine fired and the pilot was pinned against the door and placed his hand
on the spinner to stop the aircraft from moving forward until the engine ran
out of vapor.

It did not seem impossible to me but could be urban legend?


"Brian" wrote in message
ups.com...
Good plan, I once was pulling mine through with the mags off, on the
3rd pull it fired and sat there idling.
I went back to cockpit and the mags were still in the off position.

Always treat it like it is loaded!!!.

Brian