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Originally Posted by Richard Flanders
The chance of that is so slim as to not be an issue. The engines have two spark plugs in each cylinder and dual magnetos, each of which fires one of the plugs in all 4 cylinders. Much can go wrong but they will still start. I've never had one that had gas and spark not start. Up there if one won't start you get into the other and go home for parts to fix it. We do like to take two planes up there but I've been known to go up solo.
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Just after the VN War, just for grins, I landed my Taylorcraft in the desert east of Palm Springs. I got out and walked around and noticed bomb craters. I had landed in a bombing target! The engine, a leaky Continental 65 hated to start when it was hot. So I sat there waiting for the engine to cool hoping that some A-7 wouldn't roll in and drop a bomb on me.
Got it started and took off. I'll never forget it.
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