On Wednesday, March 12, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, David Gruneisen wrote:   
   > Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock! wrote:   
   > >    
   > > ...sometime last week (or maybe the week before) there was a story on   
   > > Paul Harvey's radio show about an airplane that (from what I recall) ran   
   > > out of lube for the landing gear to operate, and the crew and passengers   
   > > resorted to pissing into a container which was then applied to the gear,   
   > > which finally caused the thing to work...   
   > >    
   > > ...I need more info on that story as soon as is humanly possible...   
   > >    
   >    
   > This story has been discussed at length (no pun intended) over at   
   > alt.folklore.urban.  No one has been able to provide any substantial   
   > proof of this ever occurring, though anecdotal accounts have been   
   > supplied.   
   >    
   > Paul Harvey's original story stated that the plane (a Cessna) needed   
   > additional hydraulic fluid to build pressure in the landing gear   
   > hydraulic system, not lubricant to ease the mechanics.   
   >    
   > After discussing this with a certified aircraft mechanic he informed me   
   > that all light planes have a remote reservoir with a hand pump to deal   
   > with just such a predicament and that he had NEVER seen a light plane   
   > with an "access point" to the hydraulic lines.  I looked through several   
   > old Cessna flight manuals for the 172/182 and the Sky Ranger and indeed   
   > found no reference to an emergency hydraulic port.  But, indeed,   
   > reference to a remote fluid resevoir and hand crank for the emergency   
   > loss of hydraulic fluid with the gear in the "UP" position.   
   >    
   > Hope this helps.   
   >    
   > David "Urban" Gruneisen   
   >    
   >    
   > -- The Opinions expressed are soley my own and in no way an expression   
   > of any sane person's---   
      
   I was on that plane. The reservoir was in the rear of the plane. The hand   
   crank(lever like a jack)is a backup for the electric hydraulic pump. We were   
   out of fluid so we replaced it with what we had. My 15 min of fame is for   
   peeing in an airplane, and    
   the pilot thanked me for doing it.   
      
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