In some 40+ years of flying, I have had four Warbird engine stoppages - two due to fuel starvation, with one of them planned, and two actual engine failures. This article discusses them with explanations of causes and outcomes and is meant to convey an opinion that it is usually best to plan a flight with the altitude or flight path that gives the best chance of making a successful emergency landing - either at an en route airfield or suitable open landing area. However, this is not a treatise on exactly what can be done to prepare for an emergency or how to avoid and react to any, but merely an explanation of how one pilot dealt with them.
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