On 15 May 2007 09:19:59 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote:

So I would pull the prop through with an
open palm hand such that if the prop did start I would be ok (some of
the old guys actually start the plane this way)

That's what I was taught to do, and what I do if I'm propping from the
front (rarely). As it happens, I was 68 at the time, but my instructor
was 21. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford