Very interesting read.....
Why, I remember back when......

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/ ... Years.aspx



Enjoy,
lc

One of the Beavers I flew oh so many years ago still had a shotgun starter.....disabled, of course. It would have been fun to give it a try sometime.

A fun link, with lots of good pics.

MTV

Brought to you from the land where warm beer rules the day... Actually that contraption looks more relieable than anything built Lucas...

Around 1960, give or take a couple of years, a pilot came to town with a B18 outfitted for spraying. He either had a starter or a battery problem so he started one engine by wrapping a rope around the prop hub and pulling the rope with a jeep. It did start, but I've always thought over the years, what if the rope somehow didn't release from the hub as the planes engine started? Any way, good post, I enjoyed the pictures.

That's pretty cool! I've been around aviation quite a while, and I had never heard of this Hucks starter. Thanks for posting.

That was a great link, I've seen one or two of the old photos before, but never the full story. Thanks!

mtv wrote:One of the Beavers I flew oh so many years ago still had a shotgun starter.....disabled, of course. It would have been fun to give it a try sometime.

A fun link, with lots of good pics.

MTV

A partner at our airstrip use to own a Gannet with a Cartridge start, a twin engine contra-rotating, turbo prop. Start one engine & then adjust 2nd prop pitch out of feather to windmill start the other one. Crazy British engineers!!