And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The black thing on #2 is an engine cozy. Gotta keep those engines from freezing, so you wrap them in basically a sleeping bag and put a heat source (incandescent light or actual heater of some sort) under the wrap. Gotta keep the oil warm or starting is a no bueno.
Not unusual to get a stack fire on a cold weather start.It takes pretty heavy use of the primer to get an ignitable mixture. Raw fuel can build up in the exhaust stacks and catch on fire. Procedure is to keep cranking, hope it starts and blows the raw fuel out.
Mixture: rich!
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The black thing on #2 is an engine cozy. Gotta keep those engines from freezing, so you wrap them in basically a sleeping bag and put a heat source (incandescent light or actual heater of some sort) under the wrap. Gotta keep the oil warm or starting is a no bueno.
DeleteMixture: rich!
ReplyDeleteLooks like #2 already burned to a crisp.
Mixture: rich!
ReplyDeleteLooks like #2 already burned to a crisp.
Props feathered. That's not a start-up.
ReplyDeleteNeither prop is feathered.
DeleteMaybe warming the engine up the hard way? Everts Air Cargo is based in Alaska
ReplyDeleteYep. start them rich, blow out a lot of unburned fuel, and you get stuff warm and ready to move.
DeleteNext step is an actual start.
Fairbanks or Anchorage, can't see enough of the background to tell which but with that UPS plane in the background it has to be one or the other.
DeleteNot unusual to get a stack fire on a cold weather start.It takes pretty heavy use of the primer to get an ignitable mixture. Raw fuel can build up in the exhaust stacks and catch on fire. Procedure is to keep cranking, hope it starts and blows the raw fuel out.
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