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<div><p style="BACKGROUND:white"><b><u><span style="">Starting a radial engine aircraft<br></span></u></b><span style="">Be sure you drain both the sumps. (You can fill your Zippo lighter while you do this)<br>Look out the left side of the oily cockpit canopy and notice a very nervous person<br>
holding a huge fire bottle. Nod to this person.<br><br>1. Crack throttle about one-quarter of an inch.<br>2. Battery on<br>3. Mags on<br>4. Fuel boost on<br>5. Hit starter button (The four bladed 13' 6" prop will start a slow turn)<br>
6. Begin to bounce your finger on top of the primer button.<br>a. This act requires finesse and style. It is much like a ballet performance.<br>The engine must be seduced and caressed into starting.<br>7. Act one will begin: Belching, banging, rattling, backfiring, spluttering, flame and<br>
black smoke from the exhaust shooting out about three feet. (Fire bottle person<br>is very pale
and has the nozzle at the ready position).<br>8. When the engine begins to "catch" on the primer. Move the mixture to full rich.<br>The flames from the exhaust will stop and white smoke will come out. (Fire bottle<br>
guy relaxes a bit) You will hear a wonderful throaty roar that is like music to<br>the ears..<br>a. Enjoy the macho smell of engine oil, hydraulic fluid and pilot sweat.<br>9. Immediately check the oil pressure and hydraulic gages.<br>
10. The entire aircraft is now shaking and shuttering from the torque of the engine<br>and RPM of prop.<br>a. The engine is an 18 cylinder R-3350 that develops 2,700 HP.<br>11. Close cowl flaps to warm up the engine for taxi.<br>
12. Once you glance around at about 300 levers, gauges and gadgets, call the<br>tower and taxi to the duty runway.<br><br><br><br><b><u>Taking off in a radial engine aircraft<br></u></b><br>1. Check both magnetos<br>2. Exercise the prop pitch<br>
3. Cowl flaps open.<br>4. Check oil temp
and pressure.<br>5. Crank 1.5 degrees right rudder trim to help your right leg with the torque on takeoff.<br>6. Tell the tower you are ready for the duty runway.<br>7. Line the bird up and lock the tail wheel for sure.<br>
8. Add power slowly because the plane (with the torque of the monster prop and engine<br>power definitely wants to go left).<br>9. NEVER add full power suddenly! There is not enough rudder in the entire world to<br>hold it straight.<br>
10. Add more power and shove in right rudder till your leg begins to tremble.<br>11. Expect banging, belching and an occasional manly fart as you roar down the runway<br>at full power. (I have found that the engine can make similar noises)<br>
12. Lift the tail and when it "feels right" pull back gently on the stick to get off the ground.<br>13. Gear up<br>14. Adjust the throttle for climb setting<br>15. Ease the prop back to climb RPM<br>16. Close cowl flaps and keep an eye on the cylinder head
temp.<br>17. Adjust the power as needed as you climb higher or turn on the super charger.<br><br><br><b><u>Flying the radial<br></u></b><br>1. Once your reach altitude which isn't very high! (about 8000 feet) you reduce the throttle<br>
and prop to cruise settings.<br>2. The next fun thing is to pull back the mixture control until the engine just about quits.<br>Then ease it forward a bit and this is best mixture.<br>3. While cruising the engine sounds like it might blow or quit at any time. This keeps you<br>
occupied scanning engine gauges for the least hint of trouble.<br>4. Moving various levers around to coax a more consistent sound from the engine<br>concentrates the mind wonderfully.<br>5. At night or over water a radial engine makes noises you have never heard before.<br>
6. Looking out of the front of the cockpit the clouds are beautiful because they are<br>slightly blurred from the oil on the cockpit canopy.<br>7. Seeing lightning in the clouds
ahead increases the pucker factor by about 10.<br>a. You can't fly high enough to get over them and if you try and get under the<br>clouds----you could die in turbulence.<br>b. You tie down everything in the cockpit that isn't already secured, get a good<br>
grip on the stick, turn on the deicers, tighten and lock your shoulder straps<br>and hang on.<br>c. You then have a ride to exceed any "terror" ride in any amusement park ever<br>built. You discover the plane can actually fly side wise while inverted.<br>
8. Once through the weather, you call ATC and in a calm deep voice advise them that<br>there is slight turbulence on your route.<br>9. You then scan your aircraft to see if all the major parts are still attached. This<br>
includes any popped rivets.<br>10. Do the controls still work? Are the gauges and levers still in proper limits?<br>11. These being done you fumble for the relief tube, because you desperately<br>need it. (Be careful with your lower
flight suit zipper)</span></p></div></div></div></div>
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<div><p style="BACKGROUND:white"><span style=""><br><b><u>The jet engine aircraft<br></u></b><br><b><u>Starting a jet<br></u></b>1. Fuel boost on.<br>2. Hit the start button<br>3. When the JPT starts to move ease the throttle forward.<br>
4. The fire bottle person is standing at the back of the plane and has no idea what is going on.<br>5. The engine lights off---and---<br>6. That's about it.<br><br><b><u>Take off in the jet<br></u></b>1. Lower flaps<br>
2. Tell the tower you are ready for takeoff.<br>3. Roll on to the duty runway while adding 100% power.<br>4. Tricycle gear---no tail to drag---no torque to contend with.<br>5. At some exact airspeed you lift off the runway.<br>
6. Gear up<br>7. Milk up the flaps and fly.<br>8. Leave the power at 100%<br><br><b><u>Flying the jet<br></u></b>1. Climb at 100%<br>2. Cruise at 100%<br>3. It is silent in the plane.<br>4. You can't see clouds because you are so far above
them.<br>5. You look down and see lightning in some clouds below and pity some poor fool that may<br>have to fly through that mess.<br>6. The jet plane is air conditioned!! Round engines are definitely not. Jet engines are not<br>
round? If you fly in tropical areas, this cannot be stressed enough.<br>7. There is not much to do in a jet, so you eat your flight lunch at your leisure.<br>8. Few gauges to look at and no levers to adjust. This leaves you doodling on your knee board.<br>
9. Some call girl friends on their cell phones: "Guess where I am, etc"<br><br><b><u>Some observed differences between radial engines and jets<br></u></b>1. To be a real pilot you have to fly a tail dragger for an absolute minimum of 500 hours.<br>
2. Large round engines smell of gasoline (115/145), rich oil, hydraulic fluid, man sweat<br>and are not air-conditioned.<br>3. Engine failure to the jet pilot means something is wrong with his air conditioner.<br>4. When you take off
in a jet there is no noise in the cockpit. (This does not<br>create a macho feeling of doing something manly)<br>5. Landing a jet just requires a certain airspeed and altitude---at which you cut the<br>power and drop like a rock to the runway. Landing a round engine tail dragger<br>
requires finesse, prayer, body English, pumping of rudder pedals and a lot of nerve.<br>6. After landing, a jet just goes straight down the runway.<br>7. A radial tail dragger is like a wild mustang---it might decide to go anywhere.<br>
Gusting winds help this behavior a lot.<br>8. You cannot fill your Zippo lighter with jet fuel.<br>9. Starting a jet is like turning on a light switch---a little click and it is on.<br>10. Starting a round engine is an artistic endeavor requiring prayer (curse words) and<br>
sometimes meditation.<br>11. Jet engines don't break, spill oil or catch on fire very often which leads to<br>boredom and complacency.<br>12. The round engine may blow an
oil seal ring, burst into flame, splutter for no<br>apparent reason or just quit. This results in heightened pilot awareness at all times.<br>13. Jets smell like a kerosene lantern at a scout camp outing.<br>14. Round engines smell like God intended engines to smell, and the tail dragger is the<br>
way God intended for man to fly.</span></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br>
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