Round Engines

The hard part may be that after you've started one three
times, you go deaf, so you can't hear the forth start
attempt;-)


"JonH" wrote in message
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|A Rolls-Royce Dart can be interesting to start on some
days.
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| ...
| Not all turbine engine starts are automatic, not just
the
| PT6, but other pure jets require a fair amount of skill
to
| not burn up the engine on starting.
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| The PT6 air-flow is not straight thru, but enters at the
| rear and goes forward.
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| BTW, jets are round too.
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| "john smith" wrote in message
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| | DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE 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
beautiful
| and classy
| | mistress. Treat her right and you're in for a thrill.
| Abuse her and
| | you'll regret it!!!!
| |
| | On some turbine planes, the pilots aren't even allowed
to
| start the
| | engine...
| | Turbines start by whining for a while, and 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 explosion 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, 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.
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