Plane Tales

How do you get a pilot going? Well, in the old days it started with a hand crank!   The Hucks Starter   ... Cowboy Land!   The Coffman Starter   A cartridge starter on the RB-57A   The DHC1 Chipmunk   The Arnold Benz Velo   The cycle of a jet engine   RN Seahawks simultaneous use of their cartridge starters   RAF Lightnings of No56 "Chicken in the Basket" Sqn at RAF Akrotiri   The SR71 Blackbird   The Riedelanlasser starter for German BMW 003 and Jumo 004 turbojet engines   Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Library of Congress, Jeff Dahl, NACA, US Patent Office, bomberpilot, Jeff Dahl, the IMW, the RAF, the USAF and Kogo. Attribution not possible for some images.