Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The alternative to bending down as the propeller is pulled through the compression stroke is to keep the back straight and bend ...

Hand-propping is a traditional but high-risk method to start aircraft engines, often essential for older models or in cases of electrical failure. Safe hand-propping demands proper training, knowledge ...

When I was a new flyer, an old instructor named Tony Stubby Azzetti taught me how to hand-prop an airplane. Despite the lack of three fingers on one hand, he made it look easy, as though hed been ...

Faced with a five-hour flight in a fleeting afternoon, the impatient airplane was sitting at the gas pump where we had towed it, full of gas and preflighted. It hadn't been run for over two months, ...