Start your beaver

Nice! :)

Except one of my personal-favorite parts is missing... yelling "CLEAR PRaaaaughauh" like an umpire.
 
One of the really neat things about the airplane is it can be started with a dead battery. A hand crank is used to spin up a flywheel, then a clutch is engaged to turn the engine over. Good engineering and definitely needed in some of the remote locations in which the airplane is operated.

(of course, that is the original recip version)
 
Sandy said:
One of the really neat things about the airplane is it can be started with a dead battery. A hand crank is used to spin up a flywheel, then a clutch is engaged to turn the engine over. Good engineering and definitely needed in some of the remote locations in which the airplane is operated.
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that's very cool...I had no idea about that!
 
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The left one is the primer(by the door), the one in the center is fuel pump. The one he doesn't touch is the carb heat.
 
There are several hundred of the 1200 made that had it in the center. Not sure why, but it was in the era that beech put theirs in the center aswell.
 
Sandy said:
One of the really neat things about the airplane is it can be started with a dead battery. A hand crank is used to spin up a flywheel, then a clutch is engaged to turn the engine over. Good engineering and definitely needed in some of the remote locations in which the airplane is operated.

(of course, that is the original recip version)
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The Wilga and some other former eastern aircraft use a compressed air bottle to start. The bottle is replenished after start. And of course, you can use compressed air from a ground cart.

You see a lot of WWII aircraft with the centrifugal starts.
 
dhc2tacksby said:
There are several hundred of the 1200 made that had it in the center. Not sure why, but it was in the era that beech put theirs in the center aswell.
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If you go back to the WWII cockpits, the manufacturer often decided what went where and you see all sorts of throttle and instrument set-ups.
Throttle-T Prop-P Mixture M
TT PP MM
TPMMPT

For example.. the B-17 cockpit and throttles
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The B-26 cockpit and throttles.
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A LOT of airplanes were lost before common tactile coding and common placement of instruments became the rule.
 
Orange Anchor said:
The Wilga and some other former eastern aircraft use a compressed air bottle to start. The bottle is replenished after start. And of course, you can use compressed air from a ground cart.

You see a lot of WWII aircraft with the centrifugal starts.
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It does add a distinctive sound to the start sequence.
 
Toria said:
See, Calcapt, other people know that a • is a CAT! No stop harassing my and diction..........
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You will continue to get strange looks from guys if you insist on calling felines anything other than cats. I have told you a hundred times not to use the "P" word but I think you like seeing the guys jaws drop and making their eyes spin. :insane:
 
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