From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  kworra@aol.com   
   writes:   
      
   Note the original posting date:   
      
   >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...   
   >> > 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---   
      
   >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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