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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:01:34 GMT, (me) wrote:

Just what is an "inertial starter"?

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Once up to speed, the pilot primes the engine, turns on the mags and
clutches in the engine to the inertial wheel. You can hear the sound
of the inertia wheel dramatically changing as it's dragged down by the
mass of the engine it's now turning.

My boss at the FBO that I spent my teenage years at had a Lycoming 350hp
Stearman. I was just big enough to crank the flywheel by myself.

The sound it makes, flowed by the big radial coming to life, gives me a,
ummm, "special feeling"

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