Nice, that nine years on Chuck's original brian teaser gets another airing. (Pace's description of an air start for a Beech 18 off a lake is an absolute ball-tearer.)
At the Avalon Airshow in -94 in Victoria near Melbourne there was a rope start done with a minimum of fuss. The Navy DAK from Nowra was there with the right engine's starter motor kaput. The late Jack Curtis who flew for Dakota National Air in Sydney was there too. There was nothing old Jack did not know about the ins and outs of radials . (He was on Wellingtons in the Second World War and then after the war flew DC-3s for TAA over many years. ) Jack saw the sailors were stuck so he went over and offered to help. With twenty yards of half inch white rope and a hefty little tarmac tug he got the old girl going first time.
Jack went to the great holding pattern in the sky a couple of years ago -
http://www.pprune.org/pacific-genera...ck-curtis.html