Gesture of friendship

No matter how good friends you and your 4-stroke engine are, just do not follow my mistake of shaking hands with a spinning 12x6 prop.

(After starting the OS MAX 56 FS up with an electric starter, I wanted to adjust the needle valve....but from the wrong side of the prop. It happens sometimes and I am still proud to admit it - as long as I can still order 5 beers raising only one hand in the pub).

Far away from any medical aid in the abandoned airfield, some adhesive tape as a make-shift bandage helped me continue flying. (The 1st aid kit in my car just did not have a wide-enough bandage)

I gave an extra dose of after-run oil to the OS in the evening in recognition of which one of us the boss in the field is. My chopped flesh is also curing fine.