Lakeview Bill

Yep.

37mm.

Used to have one as a desk ornament.

I rode the training tower at Willie using these shells. All the jet
Pilots and students had to ride tahe ejection training tower.

Big John
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:35:40 GMT, "Lakeview Bill"
wrote:

From what I have read, the output of the firing mechanism, which was really
only a large column of moving air, was fed directly into one of the existing
cylinders.

If you can get your hands on a copy of the original version of "The Flight
of the Phoenix", there's a scene where Jimmy Stewart (who had been a B-24
bomber pilot in WWII), is trying to start a cobbled-together aircraft with a
shotgun starter. He only has a limited number of shells; naturally, it
starts on the last one.

BTW: Did you know that ejection seats were once powered by cannon shells?



"Dick" wrote in message
et...
Was talking with some WW2 guys who remembered the use of 10 gauge shotgun
shells to start an aircraft engine. I've seen several movies showing
something but my question is how did it work? shell in seperate cylinder
from pistons and how push crank over, etc??