[Thursday] Shot gun start

[Chris Prata]

That is awesome especially the hammer tap!

Here is wiki on the Coffman cartridge starter system,    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman_engine_starter

And in a probably most famous movie scene involving cartridge start (and yes this was an actual experimental plane that was built for the movie, which crashed in filming when it hit a berm on a low pass, and killed Paul Mantz in 1965).  It's a fun scene due to the tension between the exacting but difficult German engineer (Hardy Kruger) , and the not-as-exacting and equally difficult captain (Jimmy Stewart). Richard Attenborough played the diplomatic copilot between the two keeping them working together resulting in this contraption...

https://youtu.be/IACjOvyx5hs
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IACjOvyx5hs/hqdefault.jpg]<https://youtu.be/IACjOvyx5hs>
Flight of the Phoenix -- starting the engine<https://youtu.be/IACjOvyx5hs>
Last scene of the 1965 version, starting the engine with Coffman cartridges.
youtu.be



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