"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:vyVdk.249112$yE1.134425@attbi_s21...
This is why I was taught, on preflight, to give the exhaust stack a firm
shake. (Unless the engine was just run, of course.)

Reminds me of an (otherwise good) movie we watched at "Movie Night at the Inn" a few months ago. George Peppard stars
in "The Blue Max", a story about German World War I aviators. After he lands his plane, he jumps out and is engaged
in conversation with another pilot.

The scene cuts away, and then back -- and they show Peppard with his hand laying casually on the cylinders/exhaust
stack! Everyone in the movie night crowd let out a yelp of disbelief and sympathetic pain. Needless to say, the
guy in charge of continuity in *that* movie really dropped the ball...

:-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
Ercoupe N94856
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Well, they would land many of those old birds dead stick, modulating the mags on and off, so maybe by the time he
deplaned, etc, it would have been cool enough. What kind of plane was it?