ORIGINAL: Flyboy Dave
....that story, my friend is an "Old Mechanics Tale" designed to keep people from leaning
against airplanes....especially against the props. The explanation sounds good too, unless
a person (like myself) knows mechanical things about aircraft engines. That scenerio never
happened, and cannot happen.
But, thank you for sharing the "story" with us.
FBD.
Yup, in a perfect world the engines are pulled lean till they die and the mag switches are grounded. And in a perfect world, computers that don't move and have air conditioning units that keep them nice and cool don't ever need worked on.
And that's how I made a living for 14 years, fixing non moving mechanical parts. Saw an engine come to life at school once, guy moved the prop from the back side, popped his hand pretty good.
But you're so smart, you know better, it's an old wives tail.
And I know some pretty smart old wives.