"Jerry J. Wass" wrote in message
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Boris Beizer wrote:

"Frank Stutzman" wrote in message
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Boris Beizer wrote:


It is a compressed gas starter. A shell .. looks like a shotgun
shell..
is
fired which provides the compressed gas that is used to turn the
engine
over. It was, I believe, used as an emergency starting method for
older
radial engines.

I don't think it was compressed gas. It was gun powder of some form.

The burning of the gunpowder in the shotgun shell provided the
compressed
gas. Sorry not to have made it clear. That's what I meant.

Boris

Also used in some jets---A British jet that we adopted & changed the
wingspan
several times--Reconniasance I think

And some models of the B52.

Garrett Fulton




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