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Old 25th July 2013 | 22:01
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18-Wheeler
 
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I have a text copy of part of a book written by Captain P G Taylor, on his trip across the Tasman Sea with Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
It's where they lose a prop and hence an engine, and sinking down towards the ocean. They throw everything that isn't bolted down out of the plane to stop that and find that with full power on the remaining two engines on the Fokker it'll just stay airborne. But the other outboard engine runs low on oil so he has to go outside the plane to collect oil from the dead engine then transfer it to the other outboard running engine.
It's a stunning read of huge bravery but too long to post here - so I zipped it up and it's on my site for you to download. http://www.billzilla.org/temp/southerncross.rar
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