Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 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).

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

No doubt.  But if it were me I would have positioned the stand and *then*
started the engine.

FWIW, one of our C-47s killed its crew chief (before I got there).  Seems
somebody forgot to put the locking pin in one of the landing gear struts before
the engines were shut down.  He went to put it in but the holes were slightly
misaligned so he climbed up on the tire to try to kick it into place.  The gear
collapsed and he was crushed, all because he couldn't have been bothered to
start an engine to restore hydraulic pressure and used that to reseat the main
gear so he could put the d*mn pin in.

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