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Uploaded by on Dec 17, 2008

Engine Start and run up before flight.

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  • Hi, Tlfrantz1. I'd always start in ICO. Get it running with the primer, then

    go to auto rich, and auto lean when the rpm drops.

  • @harmgb1

    Do you start them in ico or full rich? I have one on a stand that seems to flood, but it then it coughs to life. The primer has a jet in the inlet to the carb, but fuel looks like it comes out the fuel feed valve too during priming. I crank with it rich, tickle the primer, it fires a couple of times, then stops firing. I turn the boost pump off, crank a bit and then it starts. Any ideas?

    Look up tlfrantz1, R2800 start and run

  • There is a great story of a F-105 pilot jumping into a T-29 (USAF training version of the 240) and having to work it out himself. Very funny story, in Ed Rasimus' book "Cobra Palace".

  • Boy, does THAT take me back. That was 152JR, right? I got some time in that

    one, for sure....I was the best in the world at starting the 2800 (I'm so humble, LoL)

    but true, heehee

  • use to go to Roanoke airport in the 50's to watch planes. American flew convair 240s, Eastern Martin 404's and Piedmont DC-3s. Watching them start those radials was so exciting to me. I later found out the Convair and Martin had the same engine. P&W RA2800 wasp. Sometimes they would backfire while trying to start. It sounded like a shotgun.

  • so sad 52 got cut up. good airplane

  • hey dude..that noise they make when they start, when you stop priming and kick in the mixture..like they let go before they kick in...love it.. I didnt get the start on my video, but yours is a truly good example..

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