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Old January 19th 06, 05:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Found this and thought it might be of interest to all here )

Big John
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DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND
AIRCRAFT 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 of 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,
which leads 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 God intended
machines to smell.

Pass this on to an old WWII guy (or his son, or
anyone who flew them, ever) in remembrance of that
"Greatest Generation".






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Old January 19th 06, 03:29 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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There's a "nickname number" we gave to those of us who flew round engines
for any length of time. You could be a 2800 guy, or you could be a 6150 guy
if you had R2800 and 3350 time. The REALLY "hot" guys were the 10510 guys.
They had flown the 2800, the 3350, AND the 4360's.
If you could START a 4360, you got honorable mention :-)))))
Dudley Henriques


"Big John" wrote in message
...
Found this and thought it might be of interest to all here )

Big John
`````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````````


DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND
AIRCRAFT 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 of 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,
which leads 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 God intended
machines to smell.

Pass this on to an old WWII guy (or his son, or
anyone who flew them, ever) in remembrance of that
"Greatest Generation".








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Old January 19th 06, 04:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Dudley

Those were the good old days but we only realize it now )

The biggest I fired up was the R2800 (P-47D).

Looking back I think I remember it sounded like a 'Harly Hog' today
for those who haven't heard one start and run.

Hundreds of hours behind a R1340.


Big John
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:29:08 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

There's a "nickname number" we gave to those of us who flew round engines
for any length of time. You could be a 2800 guy, or you could be a 6150 guy
if you had R2800 and 3350 time. The REALLY "hot" guys were the 10510 guys.
They had flown the 2800, the 3350, AND the 4360's.
If you could START a 4360, you got honorable mention :-)))))
Dudley Henriques


"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
Found this and thought it might be of interest to all here )

Big John
`````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````````


DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND
AIRCRAFT 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 of 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,
which leads 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 God intended
machines to smell.

Pass this on to an old WWII guy (or his son, or
anyone who flew them, ever) in remembrance of that
"Greatest Generation".








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Old January 19th 06, 04:29 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Big John" wrote in message
...
Dudley

Those were the good old days but we only realize it now )

The biggest I fired up was the R2800 (P-47D).

Looking back I think I remember it sounded like a 'Harly Hog' today
for those who haven't heard one start and run.

Hundreds of hours behind a R1340.


Big John


I have a few hours in the Jug (N) and some time in the Bearcat. Preferred
the 51 for show work, but the cat was a real ride coming off the deck with
some excess power to convert :-))
Never flew the 4360, but I had a friend who had one in his Corsair. He used
to laugh like hell when he told me that it sometimes took him more time to
get it started than it did to make the flight he started it for.
I've always wondered what the hell everybody thought was so damn hard about
flying the jets. That little list of humor you posted is just about right
on.
In the T38, you climb in; push the start buttons and watch the temps rise,
then you point it where you want it to go and hang on. (of course it helps
if you actually HAVE it pointed where you want it to go when you hit the
burners :-).
You can fly the T38 all day long without touching the rudder pedals, and
that includes aerobatics!!
It's great to be able to look back on all that fun. :-)))
Dudley


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Old January 23rd 06, 06:15 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Dudley

Guess you never flew the P-80 A/B?

The boost pump was the main fuel pump from the P-59. Was a monster
that pulled something like 20+ amps.

Once you got an indication of TPT you used both hands and pulled the
throttle back just into edge of idle cut off and then pushed out to
the idle position. This cycling let you keep the TPT from exceeding
limits as engine spooled up to idle. As the RPM rose you reached a
point where the starter dropped out and the TPT kept staying in limits
without cycling the throttle and as RPM stabilized in idle you also
had the idle TPT.

Flying that early small engine (3850 lbs thrust), if you had to go
around in the pattern it took over 20 seconds from idle to full power.
Really had to stay ahead of bird in pattern. Lot of 51/47 jocks
checking out had trouble with this.

Shut down was easy. Let idle for a minute or two to stabilize temps
and then go to idle cut off and clean cockpit up.

At Willie (first jet school) we had the 'Captive Air'. This was a
P-80A mounted on supports (concrete/steel) with gear not touching
ground. This trainer let us put a student in cockpit and standing on
wing talk him through an engine start and simulated flight. (Start
engine and then cycle gear and flaps like would happen on a real
flight.) Last time I was at Willie for a reunion (they then had
T-38's) the Captive Air facility across the field had been torn down
and not saved for posterity (

Been a long time since I thought about the early jets. We killed at
least one student a month and a instructor every quarter at Willie
when we started student jet training for Korea.

Big John
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:29:53 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
Dudley

Those were the good old days but we only realize it now )

The biggest I fired up was the R2800 (P-47D).

Looking back I think I remember it sounded like a 'Harly Hog' today
for those who haven't heard one start and run.

Hundreds of hours behind a R1340.


Big John


I have a few hours in the Jug (N) and some time in the Bearcat. Preferred
the 51 for show work, but the cat was a real ride coming off the deck with
some excess power to convert :-))
Never flew the 4360, but I had a friend who had one in his Corsair. He used
to laugh like hell when he told me that it sometimes took him more time to
get it started than it did to make the flight he started it for.
I've always wondered what the hell everybody thought was so damn hard about
flying the jets. That little list of humor you posted is just about right
on.
In the T38, you climb in; push the start buttons and watch the temps rise,
then you point it where you want it to go and hang on. (of course it helps
if you actually HAVE it pointed where you want it to go when you hit the
burners :-).
You can fly the T38 all day long without touching the rudder pedals, and
that includes aerobatics!!
It's great to be able to look back on all that fun. :-)))
Dudley


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Old January 23rd 06, 11:06 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Hi John;
Never flew the P80, but I remember those early days during the transition
period from props to jets quite well. The loss rates were high as a kite as
you have stated. But I'll bet you'll agree that in spite of it all, Willie
and Luke were the places to be in those days.:-))
Starting those early jets J33's, J47's etc really kept you guys on your toes
balancing throttle and temps. Phrases like "bringing it around the horn" and
"hot start" were quite commonly heard on the flight line back then and
hardly heard any more.
By contrast, the T38 is a "push to start" "go fast" buggy. :-)
Putting a bird on a stand and running it was a great idea, although I
remember the day Scott Crossfield blew the tail off the X15 at Edwards doing
an engine testbed ground test on the XLR99 engine. He said it was quite
funny really.
They put him in the bird and everybody else went into the blockhouse. They
called it "developing the confidence of the pilot" :-) When it blew, the
front half of the airplane actually flew forward off the stand about 20
feet. I always said, Crossfield should have logged the time! :-))
Dudley




"Big John" wrote in message
...
Dudley

Guess you never flew the P-80 A/B?

The boost pump was the main fuel pump from the P-59. Was a monster
that pulled something like 20+ amps.

Once you got an indication of TPT you used both hands and pulled the
throttle back just into edge of idle cut off and then pushed out to
the idle position. This cycling let you keep the TPT from exceeding
limits as engine spooled up to idle. As the RPM rose you reached a
point where the starter dropped out and the TPT kept staying in limits
without cycling the throttle and as RPM stabilized in idle you also
had the idle TPT.

Flying that early small engine (3850 lbs thrust), if you had to go
around in the pattern it took over 20 seconds from idle to full power.
Really had to stay ahead of bird in pattern. Lot of 51/47 jocks
checking out had trouble with this.

Shut down was easy. Let idle for a minute or two to stabilize temps
and then go to idle cut off and clean cockpit up.

At Willie (first jet school) we had the 'Captive Air'. This was a
P-80A mounted on supports (concrete/steel) with gear not touching
ground. This trainer let us put a student in cockpit and standing on
wing talk him through an engine start and simulated flight. (Start
engine and then cycle gear and flaps like would happen on a real
flight.) Last time I was at Willie for a reunion (they then had
T-38's) the Captive Air facility across the field had been torn down
and not saved for posterity (

Been a long time since I thought about the early jets. We killed at
least one student a month and a instructor every quarter at Willie
when we started student jet training for Korea.

Big John
`````````````````````````````````````````````````` `````````````````````

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:29:53 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


"Big John" wrote in message
. ..
Dudley

Those were the good old days but we only realize it now )

The biggest I fired up was the R2800 (P-47D).

Looking back I think I remember it sounded like a 'Harly Hog' today
for those who haven't heard one start and run.

Hundreds of hours behind a R1340.


Big John


I have a few hours in the Jug (N) and some time in the Bearcat. Preferred
the 51 for show work, but the cat was a real ride coming off the deck with
some excess power to convert :-))
Never flew the 4360, but I had a friend who had one in his Corsair. He
used
to laugh like hell when he told me that it sometimes took him more time to
get it started than it did to make the flight he started it for.
I've always wondered what the hell everybody thought was so damn hard
about
flying the jets. That little list of humor you posted is just about right
on.
In the T38, you climb in; push the start buttons and watch the temps rise,
then you point it where you want it to go and hang on. (of course it helps
if you actually HAVE it pointed where you want it to go when you hit the
burners :-).
You can fly the T38 all day long without touching the rudder pedals, and
that includes aerobatics!!
It's great to be able to look back on all that fun. :-)))
Dudley




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Old January 26th 06, 12:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:00:22 -0600, Big John
wrote:

Dudley

Those were the good old days but we only realize it now )

The biggest I fired up was the R2800 (P-47D).

Looking back I think I remember it sounded like a 'Harly Hog' today
for those who haven't heard one start and run.


snip

Had a biker walk into the hangar one day looking for some "airplane
oil" for his Hog.

Asked him if he wanted 40 or 50 weight, detergent, or not. While he
was thinking about it, he was checking out a R-985 hanging on one of
our E-18S's.

"could I put a couple of those on my bike?"

"if you did, it would be darn near a 220."

"whoa."

TC
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Old January 19th 06, 04:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote
There's a "nickname number" we gave to those of us who flew
round engines for any length of time.


I'm a 5170 guy. R-1820 S-2F, R-3350 P-2V

Bob Moore
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Old January 19th 06, 04:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote
There's a "nickname number" we gave to those of us who flew
round engines for any length of time.


I'm a 5170 guy. R-1820 S-2F, R-3350 P-2V

Bob Moore


The Navy put all the smarter people in Vikings and Neptunes.
All the fighter pilots mothers' told them never to hang out or to drink with
you people. It was possible that the smartness could rub off and if that
happened, they could lose their fighter slot and get themselves transferred
up to a multi-engine outfit !!!
:-))
Dudley Henriques


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Old January 19th 06, 06:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote

The Navy put all the smarter people in Vikings and Neptunes.


How about "Trackers" and Neptunes? :-)

Bob
 




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