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Propeller

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[...i had an experience where i was in great danger. when i was in the service from 1956 to 1959 i was aviation electrician at work: aircraft carrier...

...one night, we were heading flights. practice flying, model missions. and part of my job was to start the airplanes on the afterdeck. on the afterdeck, the airplanes are parked where the propeller is about four inches behind the plane parked in front of it. and we have to start the airplane with an auxiliary cable, and then move back to the next plane. the plane's wings are folded and they're parked real close together...

...so we started the front row. we started the planes. we have to wear helmets, because of the helmets you can't hear too much, it, uh, drowns out the noise. and i dunno, i must've been daydreaming or something because i started maybe my fifth or sixth plane, and i was going to the next row with this long cable that i had stretched out behind me. and i was daydreamin'. it was dark out, pitch dark. middle of the night. middle of the ocean...

...just very few lights. i was crawling on my hands and knees, under an airplane...

...and all of a sudden, i stopped, why i don't know. then it dawned on me: my body must've been not more than three or four inches from the propeller of the plane behind me, which was -- turning. somebody else on the other side had gotten that row already. and those planes behind were started. and for some reason, i stopped. and lucky there i didn't walk into that prop. and so, i consider it a very dangerous experience that i had and i was very lucky...]

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from Joy Farm, released September 10, 2012

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