At 17:45 31 December 2008, David Salmon wrote:
I can add a couple of anecdotes to this erudite thread.

Here's another. An old story about a pilot who ran the relief tube down
into the wheel well of his glider, so it wouldn't dangle in the
slipstream. To use it, he would just put the wheel down until he had
completed his mission. Worked great in the air.

Next landing, he rolled off to the side of the runway, but then just sat
in the glider. When his pals ran over to see what was the matter, he was
sitting there with a really pained look on his face. Seems the relief
tube had gotten wrapped around the axle and as the glider rolled out, it
started to sort of wind him up. Through clenched teeth he asked if the
guys could just "roll me backwards about twenty feet, will ya, please?"

Jim Beckman