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.
I know that radial engines might collect oil in the lower cylinders before starting them they are hand rotated by walking the props through a couple of turns. How do you do that on a flying boat?
Excellent question, and I don't know the correct answer. But I am reminded of the movie "Flight of the Phoenix". Their airplane (before the crash-landing) used cartridge starters on the two radial engines. [file:///C:/Users/Internet/Downloads/Coffman_engine_starter.pdf] After the crew remade the airplane (now single-engined), they expended a few of the starting cartridges they had, in attempting to start the engine. When that failed, they used another cartridge to turn the engine over in an attempt to clear it. (That was done without routing fuel to the engine.) They used their last remaining cartridge to attempt a "live" start . . . successfully.
So maybe high-winged seaplanes with radial engines could use that as a clearing procedure?
My Grandmother flew on BOAC backing the 60's and said that BOAC actually stood for "Better on a Camel"
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DeleteI know that radial engines might collect oil in the lower cylinders before starting them they are hand rotated by walking the props through a couple of turns.
ReplyDeleteHow do you do that on a flying boat?
Excellent question, and I don't know the correct answer. But I am reminded of the movie "Flight of the Phoenix". Their airplane (before the crash-landing) used cartridge starters on the two radial engines. [file:///C:/Users/Internet/Downloads/Coffman_engine_starter.pdf] After the crew remade the airplane (now single-engined), they expended a few of the starting cartridges they had, in attempting to start the engine. When that failed, they used another cartridge to turn the engine over in an attempt to clear it. (That was done without routing fuel to the engine.) They used their last remaining cartridge to attempt a "live" start . . . successfully.
DeleteSo maybe high-winged seaplanes with radial engines could use that as a clearing procedure?
It has that distinctive Boeing look.
ReplyDeleteMust be a Wren boat crew.
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