Stealth Pilot wrote in
:

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:28:44 -0800 (PST), James Sleeman
wrote:

Sorry for the long subject, but like it says, I'm looking for an image
I came across once, possibly through a link in r.a.* somewhere, from
memory it was of an engineer hanging outside of a cub or similar
changing a spark plug or something in flight. I think it was an old
advertisement or something.

Anybody know the image I'm talking about and have a link to it?

the guy was topping up the oil duringr a week long endurance flight.
needed to do it every few days as I recall.

guys name was Ira Eaker, year was 1929.
http://www.aerofiles.com/stin-smb1.jpg
is the photo you probably remember.

it left an indelible image in my mind :-)


Yeah, tha's another. There was a 172 sometime in the fifties where they had
a platform under the airplane for servicing. It was a big thing to do to
sell airplanes back then.. Luscombe tried it with a sedan and it came to
grief.

Bertie