The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

It's more of a challenge on some engines!!

So much for Health & Safety then!

Pah!
That looks easy.
I've watched Ice Pilots you know.

The Aircraft my Dad uses for teaching has a VW beetle engine in it with stromberg carbs of all things!!

I guess you wear a helmet when you are adjusting it under load????

Jeroen

That man looks as if he loves engines too much

I have a feeling that one of our lot got a VC for doing something similar during the war, necessitated him climbing out on the wing while they were still many hundreds of feet off the ground to transfer some oil or something. I suppose you would do anything to get home for a beer - and a warm bed!

Perhaps this fellow is just cooking some toast on the exhaust manifold. I wonder how he would know when to turn it over to toast the other side?

I can remember they used to glow red hot on the old DC3's that we used to fly in. Quite scary at night to look out and see the glow in the dark.

It's not so bad out there, a tad breezy at 1700 rpm though You just need to hold on, the only real danger would be a fire in which case you just slide down the wing and off the trailing edge. We did have a small exhaust fire later that day on the other engine that was quickly and easily dealt with.
Yes there was a VC won for crawling out onto the wing of a Wellington bomber to put out an engine fire, Sergeant James Ward kicked holes in the fabric surface so he had hand and foot holds. He was killed a few months later before he had been presented with the award.

merlind100 wrote: Yes there was a VC won for crawling out onto the wing of a Wellington bomber to put out an engine fire, Sergeant James Ward kicked holes in the fabric surface so he had hand and foot holds. He was killed a few months later before he had been presented with the award.

Can't imagine Easyjet going to that much trouble

S