hand cranking a Tiger tank 1

[berkshire]

As an apprentice the company I worked for did a lot of work for Glo'ster aircraft co.At the time they were building the Javelin ,I would often be at the field at Hucclecote when they fired those engines up , they also had cartridge starts , but I do not think they were as loud as the Hunter, however you still got the cloud of black smoke stinking of cordite which drifted all over the airport.
This is getting a long way from tanks.
B.E.

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[KENAT]

Not really, M1 Abrams uses a gas turbine engine....

et voila back at tanks, you're welcome berkshire ;-)

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[MacGyverS2000]

I had no idea engines of any sort were started with shotgun cartridges.

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[Compositepro]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman_engine_starter

 

[zeusfaber]

KENAT,
Think you're right about AVPIN on the Hunter. Still makes a lot of sudden noise. I'd forgotten all about that ghastly stuff (and will now try to do so again)!

A.

 

[berkshire]

Zeusfaber,
There are stories that circulate in aviation circles, of people who used AVPIN as a cleaner with undesired results.
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[MacGyverS2000]

The wiki page for Isopropyl nitrate has some interesting tidbits...

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[KENAT]

Zeus, I did a bit of Googling when I posted about Avpin (much delayed by thinking the word was Avpro for some reason).

Anyway got the impression that some Avons (early?) were cartridge started, but I'm sure as can be Lightening was Avpin.

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[zeusfaber]

The Hunters that used to make me jump were T7s - so almost certainly AVPIN started (though in those days, I still thought of myself as a purely electrical/electronic engineer and hadn't learnt to pay enough attention to the mechanical systems - even when I flew in one).

The Lightning never seemed to get out very much - and when it did, there was always somebody out to upstage it. I remember the BBC filming the opening titles to a TV series by pointing a camera backwards down the spine of Lightning as it did a few zoom climbs off the main runway. An hour or so after they'd finished (run out of fuel/hydraulic oil), somebody got a Harrier out and spent twenty minutes or so flying the same profile - just at about a tenth of the speed.

A.