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On Feb 5, 7:01 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

That was Never Cry wolf, wasn't it? I saw it a loooong time ago. I can't
remember but I think it was a Twin Beech.

deHavilland Beaver, IIRC.

For an even more gripping real life adventure like that, see if you can
find an account of Kingsfor Smith's second crossing of the Tasmin Sea in
the Southern Cross.. The lost one engine due to a busted prop and were
losing oil out of another. The only thing to do was transfer oil from
oned engine to the other manually by climbing out on the landing gear
struts, ripping open the cowling with a screwdriver, draining the oil
from ( the left, I think) into his leather briefcase, the only vessel
capable of holding oil on board, then climbing out the other side and
pouring it into the running right engine. The guy who did this is one of
the fathers of long distance navigation. Can't remember his first name,
but his last name was Taylor.

I have that story in an anthology. Great reading. It was a
tri-motor, and just before the flight they'd had one of the engines
all apart. During the flight, one engine quit (the left, I think),
then the right started losing oil. They couldn't maintain altitude on
one, so they dumped the mail overboard and started the oil transfer.
Made it to shore. The only engine that hadn't given any trouble was
the nose engine: the one that had been apart all over the hangar
floor.


That's the one. You probably read the sae account I did which would have
been Gordon Taylor's account. I remeber him remarking that the guy who had
the nose engine apart he wouldn't let work on his Model T. IIRC, the left
engine itself didn't quit, they shed a prop blade and part of the problem
getting the vibratin from that when it was windmilling.