Ever see the picture of the guy at about 1000' in a Cub, standing on the
wheel and handpropping the thing?

It's a cool shot.

Fellow Tripacer owner, about 2 years ago now, got his hand pretty well F'd
up handpropping a Continental O-290 in an experimental. Didn't get out of
the way fast enough. Never wrap your fingers around the blade. Use your
palms only with just enough fingertip and pull so that you are always moving
away from the prop arc.

Back when I had my ultralight (around '81, '82) an old timer had his Corbin
Baby Ace tied to an engine hoist when it got away from him. It made it
almost to the runway (perpendicular). I think it was the right wing that
caught the end of the wing of a Cessna and that flipped it over.

Almost bought that plane after.

On the mags thing, is it the impulse coupling on some engines' mags that
could ruin your day? Get to a certain point and the impulse coupling fires
off a spark before the piston's TDC and you get whacked in the back of the
fingers with what sould have been the following blade.

mike regish

"Newps" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:



Incidentally, the original poster (I think) said that a pilot had to
be at the controls. I was instructed that a pilot or *mechanic* had to
be.

So J3's are two pilot airplanes? This comes up frequently and the real
answer is you don't legally need anybody to hand prop a plane.