Lowell exists

[dbacks fan]

Can any of you pilots explain to me how oil in cans still exist, and someone having a can opener, how you would not be nervous seeing this out the window of the plane you are on?

[Red Arrow]

Can any of you pilots explain to me how oil in cans still exist, and someone having a can opener, how you would not be nervous seeing this out the window of the plane you are on?

Why would you feel better if he were pouring it from plastic bottle?

[Breadburner]

No kidding who gives a rip.....

[DolfanBob]

That just means it's expensive sh!t.

[Hoss]

That just means it's expensive sh!t.

It can also mean that it might have something in it that will break down regular plastic bottles over time.

[Gaspar]

Quiz of the day. . .

If you encountered a fire at cruising altitude, would you want flammable liquid onboard stored in:

A. a plastic bottle.
B. a sealed metal can.

[dbacks fan]

Part of my post was meant in humor, but I was curious if aviation oil was still stored in old style cans for a purpose. As for an engine fire in flight, the last thing on my mind would be "Gee do they carry extra oil and is in plastic or cardboard?" This was a flight that I was on going from OTH to SFO and everyone on the plane that was on this side was curious as to what was going on. Turned out that the plane had lost a gallon of oil in the previous trip from SFO to OTH, and the flight was canceled until the next day. I was actually not nervous about it, although I did want to ask the ground mechanic if he had gone to school at Spartan. (I graduated from there with an associates for QC/NDT in 1989.)

[Hoss]

Part of my post was meant in humor, but I was curious if aviation oil was still stored in old style cans for a purpose. As for an engine fire in flight, the last thing on my mind would be "Gee do they carry extra oil and is in plastic or cardboard?" This was a flight that I was on going from OTH to SFO and everyone on the plane that was on this side was curious as to what was going on. Turned out that the plane had lost a gallon of oil in the previous trip from SFO to OTH, and the flight was canceled until the next day. I was actually not nervous about it, although I did want to ask the ground mechanic if he had gone to school at Spartan. (I graduated from there with an associates for QC/NDT in 1989.)

Hmm...you might have known some guys I knew that went there during that time period.  At least two.  One works for Southwest as a A & P, the other is no longer with us...

[dbacks fan]

Hmm...you might have known some guys I knew that went there during that time period.  At least two.  One works for Southwest as a A & P, the other is no longer with us...

I was thinking that after reading comments on another thread, and I knew a lot of them that lived at the Marina. One in particular was a guy from Kuwait, his dad was president of Kuwaiti Airlines then, who drove some girls car into the lake at the Marina because he did not know how to drive in the snow.

[Red Arrow]

who drove some girls car into the lake at the Marina because he did not know how to drive in the snow.

Like most Oklahomans.

[Red Arrow]

I was curious if aviation oil was still stored in old style cans for a purpose.

The oil for my piston engine comes in plastic bottles the same as car oil.