Dec 24, 1966 (OMG 57 years ago). Two C-130 crews from Charleston AFB had just delivered essential cargo to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean (between South America and Africa, literally, the middle of nowhere).  I was the navigator on one of them. We were both ready/anxious to head home for Christmas. But~~~~~~ my bird had two starters that wouldn’t turn over. HOW do we both get home??
Here was our illegal plan.   

In the true spirit of aircrew teamwork, our colleague other crew lent us one of their working starters.  Now we had Two C-130’s with one bum starter each.

There are two prohibited ways to start a C-130 engine without a starter.  We planned to use both of them (Don’t tell nobody).  One’s called a buddy start and the other is a windmill taxi start.
Our colleague aircrew did a windmill taxi start.   They Started the three working engines. Taxied to the end of the runway.  Gunned the three working engines and raced down the runway until the prop on the idle engine reached an RPM fast enough to ignite that engine.  The goal is to get that 4th engine ignited before you run out of runway. You can see why it’s prohibited.  Well. It worked.  Our colleague crew taxied back to us with all four engines working.   
 Now we did the “buddy” start.  We taxied just behind our buddy. He put on his brakes and gunned his engines.  We had three engines going and watched our idle prop begin to rotate in the prop wash of our colleague.  When the prop reached the required RPM that engine ignited.  That was prohibited because all kinds of debris could get blown into the engine from the prop wash. 

BOTTOM LINE—-   Both crews made it safely back to Charleston for Christmas.  Nobody ratted us out and no incident was reported.   A truly good news story of aircrew teamwork and very much in the spirit of Christmas.