BA> Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to ALLEN PRUNTY:

 BK>>  I spent quite a bit of time on the flight line, but made a point  of
 BK>> staying away from the ones with the engines running.

 BA> At NKP I was one of the backend aircrew in the EC-47
 BA> program.  I made it a *point* to never walk under the wing
 BA> front to back (or vice versa) - I figured that if I *never*
 BA> did it I wouldn't forget and do it when an engine was
 BA> running, so always the long way around the wingtip.

 That makes a great deal of sense.

 BA> The engine maintenance people were a bit more casual, I
 BA> watched one of them wheel a stand between the prop and the
 BA> wing of an EC-47 while the engine was idling, the top of
 BA> the stand was less than a foot from the prop.  Then he
 BA> climbed up the stand, opened a panel on the cowl and
 BA> started fiddling with something inside, while the engine
 BA> was still idling (one of his colleagues was sitting in the
 BA> cockpit, leaning out the window and watching him).

 It is quite possible that they had to make adjustments while the
 engine was running. That does happen.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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