On Feb 18, 6:31 pm, John Smith wrote:
In article
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:

Then there was the time at Perris with the D-18 when I was pulling a
load up thru various altitudes, a couple here, a few there and we were
headed for 12.5 for some AAF with 4 guys left. Don Balch was the JM
and I was doing a racetrack pattern in the climb. As we were going
thru 11K, I lost the blower on the right engine on the jump leg and I
hollered back "JUMP RUN" and Balch comes forward pointing at his
altimeter saying "12.5" and I replied "We lost our right engine..."
and he didn't even slow down as he smoothly pivoted around hollering
"JUMP RUN" and they all headed out. I'm still laughing at how little
argument I got for the low jump run...!

Brownies Lebanon Airport, Lebanon OH, circa 1972
After a wet Spring and several weeks of no jumping activity, the clouds
parted and the sun appeared for several days.
The C180 was untied and pulled out of the open T-hangar, the jumpers
were loaded and off they flew.
Passing through 3500 on the way up, smoke began waifting into the cabin
from under the instrument panel. As the pilot realized the source was
not within the aircraft cabin, he announced, "Boys, I think we got
a...", and before the word "fire" was out of his mouth, the jump door
was open and four jumpers were gone, leaving the pilot all alone.
Being a jump pilot in an airplane directly over an airport, he wasn't
about to join his recently departed charges.
Putting the nose down and performing the jump pilot descent, he was
quickly on the ground, stopped and shut down.
Unbuttoning the cowling revealed a recently constructed birds nest on
the rear cylinders on one side of the engine.

Poached? Or over easy? ;-)