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Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:07 pm
My appologies if this a repost. Read the scrolling text - very entertaining!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkcX0KGIBwk
Regards,
Art S.
Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:43 pm
Hi!
I recorded and posted that video on Youtube. Unfortunatly it came out with wrong aspect ratio and the sound is out of sync.
For a better version of it, try this link:
http://www.airshowbuzz.com/videos/view.php?v=a1732e01
-E
Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:15 pm
Thanks for the post guys. I've had the text to that for several years but this it the first time I've seen it with a video. Looks like that 985 needs some more fiddling with.
Doug Ratchford-Canso42
volunteer Lone Star Flight Museum
Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:11 pm
Yeah, BR-37 the Red Bulls Corsair. I saw it fly at an area airshow back in '88. In looking back at those old photos and trying i.d. everything now that I'm actually involved with warbirds, it took me a bit to make the connection on that bent wing.
Canso42
Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:01 pm
Canso42 wrote:Thanks for the post guys. I've had the text to that for several years but this it the first time I've seen it with a video. Looks like that 985 needs some more fiddling with.
Doug Ratchford-Canso42
volunteer Lone Star Flight Museum
rebuild the primer lines?
Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:47 pm
Starting round engines huh? You know I always have to be just a little different.
Check out this round engine start up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr-GdGRI_Ac
Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:32 pm
I love watching pilots start the engine while inside a hangar!
Jerry
Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:05 am
I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnLfoPcY-9Y
Gotta love that test rig!
Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:20 pm
If I pumped the throttle like that with my Jake, I'm pretty sure it would be on fire. I thought that was a no-no on pretty much all radials (at least with carbs) for risk of a big flaming backfire through the carb.
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:58 pm
This sums it up.
As one who has started turbines hundred of times and round engines many times less, there is nothing as much fun as having that round beast come to life.
DEDICATED TO ALL
WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND ENGINES
We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation and our
hearing...
A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels
through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent
fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat.
Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a ; switch from
"OFF" to "START" and then remember to move it back to "ON"
after a while. My PC is harder to start.
Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You have to
seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a horny mistress. On some
planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it...
Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and
start whining a little louder.
Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click! -click, BANG,
more rattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two, more clicks, a
lot more smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar.
We like that. It's a GUY thing...
When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
concentrate on the flight ahead.
Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan:
Useful, but, hardly exciting.
When you have started his round engine successfully your crew chief
looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl too!
Turbines don't break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew
boredom, complacency and inattention.
A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow any
minute. This helps concentrate the mind !
Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot's
attention.
There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.
Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps.
Round engines smell like Gas as God intended machines to smell.
Pass this on to an old pilot in remembrance of that "Greatest
Generation"
Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:04 pm
skybolt2003 wrote:If I pumped the throttle like that with my Jake, I'm pretty sure it would be on fire. I thought that was a no-no on pretty much all radials (at least with carbs) for risk of a big flaming backfire through the carb.
I would think so too.............looks like a tired pratt that needs some primer system rebuild.
Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:54 pm
Had to do it!!!!! The best radial start on YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63C95rsaHZQ