Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to Craig Healy:
-> Falls into "Put your money where your mouth is" category .  Sounds
-> like a foolproof test!  Heh!
 EH> Slow timing a Beech Baron one time the engine DID quit.  I thought
 EH> the mechanic was gonna DIE!  (it had stripped a Mag coupling and
 EH> made a TERRIFIC racket!)
What engines did a Baron have (IO-540 comes to mind but I have a hard time 
keeping Lyc's and Cont's straight sometimes). When I was trained as an A/P we 
did magnafluxing and dye-penatrant on EVERYTHING.
 EH> He would have climbed out on the wing and fixed it on the spot if 
 EH> it hadn't been so windy..... 
I think I would have PUSHED him out to fix it :)
 EH> We just lazed around the pattern and landed with one turning and
 EH> the other feathered.    IT really wasn't his fault.
Better than one turning and one BURNING I guess....
Besides a Baron is not a real airplane anyway... engines that look like they 
got ran over, somebody chopped off the upper wing and somebody did not know 
front from back when they stuck the third wheel on it.....
Last good Beech was the 17, but the 18 was at least 2/3's of an A/C. Give me 
a Great Lakes any day. as of twenty years ago it was the only A/C I know of 
that never had a A.D. against it.
Gerry
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