"John S. Shinal" wrote:

"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

A self inspired night checkout in the average warbird would kill all but the
most "inspired" I can assure you!! :-)))

"All right, time to rotate...hmmm...what the...why can't I...
AAAGH ! The gust locks !"

PRANG ! Boom.

IIRC:
Is'nt that what caused the crash of the Evansville IN team DC-3
years ago. Crew forgot to remove the gust locks ?

1977, Dec 13 DC-3 Crashed after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, USA
when a National Jet Services DC-3 crashed
during takeoff in Evansville, Ind., killing all
29 people on board, including the entire
14-member Evansville basketball team and
their coach, Bobby Watson.