Re: me a hero ?

Posted by rrlund on April 08, 2007 at 07:37:27 from (216.46.210.224):

In Reply to: Re: me a hero ? posted by paul on April 07, 2007 at 22:23:34:

Reminds me of a story about EJ Potter. He used to pull a couple of Allison V12 powered tractors. He got obsessed with jet engines. He had a theory that you could start one by just getting it traveling fast enough so the air flow was spinning it. He mounted one on the back of a souped up grain truck and went in to Ithica and got somebody to drive for him. He dropped a hose in the gas tank of the truck to feed the jet,figured 70 miles per hour would be the right speed so he told the driver to blow the horn when he hit 70. Well,that's when everything happened at once. The engine went up in flames,EJ was standing up in the corner of the box trying to get away from the fire. There were two guys in a field,one on a tractor and one on the ground talking to him. They heard the horn,looked up and saw the flames and started waving for all they were worth. The driver didn't know about the fire,so he just waved back and kept going.

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