I dunno about Kauffmans, other than seeing something like it portrayed in
Flight Of The Phoenix, but some rotary wing birds (Sea Knight, etc) had a
manually operated pump to charge an accumulator for a hydraulic starter
motor.

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"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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The Kauffman starter was an emergency use only sort of thing, for when an
aircraft was stranded at a field which didn't have the appropriate huffer
to start it. There was a time when almost every aircraft had specific
starting gear, different from any onther aircraft, driving the logistics
people near to distraction. Some were huffers of various pressure and
mass flow. Some moved huge amounts of air at low pressure, others moved
small volumes at high pressure. Other aircraft used electric starters of
various currents (pretty much all of those were ~30 V.) All the F4 models
use air start turbines, and needed 28 V DC to operate the fuel valves and
ignition system.

Jon