Bill Pearce wrote:
>I think the deHavilland Beaver is Canada's greatest contribution to
aviation design.
I think there's something really special about an aircraft that has a
provision, as it was related to me by a pilot, for adding engine oil from
the cockpit while in flight.
Bill Pearce
I wonder if the designers added that feature after Oz's Kingsford Smith
pioneered the first Pacific flight. It was in a Ford Trimotor from memory
and one of the engines developed an oil leak. Another member of the
three-man crew crawled out on the wing and transferred oil from one of the
other engines in a teacup. Gutsy stuff.
John.
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